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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, September 8, 2017

Government Does It's Most Basic Job, Film At Eleven

The Trump-Schumer-Pelosi deal just sailed through Congress.  It insures that the government stays open and doesn't default on its debt (for three months), funds hurricane relief and allows for other pressing matters to come to the fore.

It passed the House 316-90 and the Senate 80-17.  The reason Trump made the deal is apparent in the numbers: All the "no" votes came from Republicans. They even booed and hissed after they passed the damned thing, like the children that they are.

I really hope Trump agrees to the deal that eliminates the debt ceiling altogether.  Watching the Freedumb Caucuses heads explode will make great television.

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