Americans have become used to two things in December: the holiday season and a looming government shutdown right before Christmas.
Like a scripted play, the media always portray this in a similar fashion — shirts and skins, the bad guys versus the good guys, those who want to govern and those who want "obstruct." It’s so predictable at this point that we ought to call it the Capitol Hill Christmas Pageant.
In reality, these so-called "crisis" moments are often manufactured in order to force members to support spending they would otherwise oppose.
Bills are presented as "must-pass," but only because congressional leadership lets them linger until the last minute. A small handful of power brokers hammer out massive, complicated,.
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