tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post7170143446712374199..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Aren't We Headed to a Shutdown?Jonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-37815803720422875322011-09-06T18:41:49.106-05:002011-09-06T18:41:49.106-05:00Election campaign cycle = government shutdown anyw...Election campaign cycle = government shutdown anywayTaylor Wrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06290713725463878436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-70383560355278110452011-09-06T13:17:39.217-05:002011-09-06T13:17:39.217-05:00Well, the Congress wasn't destined to do much ...Well, the Congress wasn't destined to do much work, after that commission was announced. They'd stall out, and the Senate hasn't done any budget work in over 2 years in any event, other than rejecting Obama's Spring proposal 97-0, and they had to be shamed into taking even that vote. <br /><br />The current backroom negotiating is framing all, and would encompass everything, including entitlements, defense and tax reform, setting the table for the commission's final product. So congressional committee work is likely just rudimentary right now, and subsumed by those backroom dealings. They're waiting for the capped number to work down to them. <br /><br />My guess is that the honorables are planning on flooding the zone with appropriations bills, and everything they do will pass with similar voting patterns as per the debt ceiling vote, bipartisan, within the caps agreed backroom. The Tea Party and the hard Left will both squawk, but the honorables will vote the bills up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-86917812653135958972011-09-06T09:42:04.320-05:002011-09-06T09:42:04.320-05:00Sorry, won't help in a shutdown over appropria...Sorry, won't help in a shutdown over appropriations. <br /><br />The coin thing helps if Obama is authorized by Congress to spend money, and money is appropriated for it, but there's no actual money. That was last month. This one is about the chance that there will be no money appropriated by Congress (& signed by BHO) to spend. There's not much the president can do about that.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-23513863939700595952011-09-06T09:37:14.622-05:002011-09-06T09:37:14.622-05:00Platinum trillion dollar coins are still available...Platinum trillion dollar coins are still available to be minted....Ron E.noreply@blogger.com