Agreeing to the two-week version of the Republican budget either means one of two things: either that the Democrats are scared that a government shutdown will burn them or that they think a shutdown is inevitable and want to start by capitulating to the IMO unreasonable demand that a very short-term continuing resolution be a miniature version of their deviation from the status quo in order that they come out looking like the reasonable party when the shutdown happens. Of course this is all the Democrats fault for failing to pass a real budget in an election year and leaving it to the next, divided congress to handle it.
Well, I guess if the fight weren't about this it would be about the debt ceiling. That is Obama's fault. It makes no sense to approve the extension of the Bush tax cuts, thus denying the government more revenue that it would get automatically, without also getting an increase in the debt ceiling as well.
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