Why? Because the House can't pass a clean bill. They passed a disaster funding bill, one that many argue isn't sufficient but that more importantly was loaded with toxic provisions that make it unpassable in the Senate. It pits disaster funding against a job-creating program that promotes energy efficiency. Since the R's are anti-efficiency, they saw an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
We've never used disaster relief as a political toy before. This is a new low in politics, a new low in basic morality. Leveraging disaster victims' pain to achieve an ideological goal. This is "the end justifies the means" thinking that seems to rule now. It's disturbing on so many levels.
And this is just stopgap funding for a couple months. We aren't even talking about a real budget yet or any dollar amounts or time frames that really matter in terms of deficits or what have you. So, yet again, we're facing prospects of shutdown.
This is getting OLD.
The inmates appear to be running the asylum. A new low indeed.
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