Caveat the first: it is possible its not going to happen today, but the Senate has reached a deal:
Ted “Shit for Brains” Cruz won’t use a bullshit tactic to slow it down.
(Chiron of Fox News “Senator Cruz says he will not attempt to block Senate deal”)
Indications are that Boehner will permit the vote in the House, and it will pass.
Pursuant to my vested powers as the rightful and regnant Queen of Romania, I hereby declare, anoint, and endorse this In Your Face, Suckahs, Happy Dance to celebrate Cornpone’s Defeat, Cornpone’s Rout, Cornpone’s Utter Humiliation, and The Tea Party’s Incredible, Astoundng, and Utterly Deserved High Dive Face Plant!
Well, I’m all in favor of happy dancing, but the deal as stated in the article does not inspire me with terpsichore.
3 months to negotiate a long-term budget plan? They haven’t been able to do that in (how many?) years. To me this just looks like kicking the can a very short way down the road.
Next year is election year. I hope sensible moderates on both sides of the aisle are able to use this exercise in the futility of tantrum-throwing to increase their numbers.
Thank you, Tea Party, for handing the Democrats and center-right Republicans a nice, big club to beat you about the face and shoulders in 2014 and 2016. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of raving right wing batshit loonies!
I hereby declare a holiday in recognition of these joyous events. Let October 16th ever after be celebrated as ‘Congress Performs Trivial Tasks Only Three Weeks After Deadline Day’.
Look, its not so much being happy about what happened, but relieved at what didn’t happen! And we don’t even really know what that would have been, estimates range from not very good to Godawful Zombie Calypso Apocalypse. We don’t have to find out, that’s the Good News!
