Deal to avert government shutdown “likely”…
¡¡¡MILAGRO!!!
Will wonders never cease?
From The Washingtoon Post:
Congress returns to work this week with no plan to reverse across-the-board spending cuts that took effect Friday, but with hope on both sides of the aisle of averting an end-of-the-month showdown that could result in a government shutdown.
The House plans to vote Thursday on a spending measure that would keep the government running after its current funding mechanism elapses March 27.
It would provide funding through the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, allowing new flexibility to the Pentagon to manage the $40 billion hit the military took Friday but otherwise locking in the sequester’s lower spending levels.
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he discussed the need to avoid a shutdown with President Obama at a meeting Friday between the president and congressional leaders. The interview was filmed after that meeting and aired Sunday morning.
“The president this morning agreed that we should not have any talk of a government shutdown,” Boehner said in the interview. “So I’m hopeful that the House and Senate will be able to work through this.”
A “government shutdown”???
Whaddayou, kiddin’ me or what?
How many upper middle class/moderately wealthy motherfuckers would be out of a job and wondering how to pay their sky-high debts should that happen?
But…never fear. You and I plus the rest of the plebes will bear the brunt of this latest infra-PermaGov dustup.
And the game continues.
Our part?
Those of us who are not playing the game at that level or who refuse to play it?
Ben Dover knows.
Bet on it.
AG
