19th January 2018, 11:14 PM
The republicans have been holding the government hostage over this for way too long. McConnell's main legacy is going to be finding "cheats" to get his way. An argument can be made that this is the democrat's fault. They aren't blameless here, but all they ever actually needed to do was just extend the budget like they always do. It's always been the republicans that have insisted on tying some piece of their agenda to this basic duty of congress.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)