All of this, so much. Washington is one huge convoluted mess and the reason I'm a political independent (not the Independent party). I'm convinced they all have their own agendas and that's what's holding all this up. Anyone who is thinking about slapping things into the budget that have NOTHING to do with it at all, and everything to do with hardballing until they get their way, is just wrong. I don't give a crap what party they belong to, they're wrong.

It's like telling your kid, "Well, if you don't clean your room, I'm not giving you lunch money." Um, what? The desire for said child to clean his room is a separate issue from his NEED to eat. Kwim?