re: #143 darthstar

Derp Falcon, the CR is only an emergency measure, not something meant to be used to keep kicking the can down the road. Do you really want to see another shut-down just before Xmas because a handful of wingnut assholes won’t accept the legitimacy of the Affordable Care Act (under which you would qualify for free health-insurance, by the way, as you’re between jobs) or the legitimacy of President Obama, for that matter.

There’s risk, but I think the risk worth running. The point of this plan is to get the whole ‘imminent crisis’ aspect cut back a bit and set up the mechanism by which the budget is going to be negotiated. Any proper budget is going to a compromise, Darth, and we need some method for reaching that compromise. This is as good an idea as any for doing that. And it meets the president’s demands by not touching Obamacare, but only sets up a framework for reaching a budget.