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You are very disingenuous. You want funding through January.

I'm ok with NO funding until the new congress gets sworn in.

I don't take council of my fears.

The end game is defunding Obamacare and Amnesty and all the other liberal crap.

/johnny

Funding runs out in two days, Thursday. They need a short-term CR to fund until a longer-term CR kicks in. Once that bill passes the House, it must go to the Senate and then to the President's desk. So a short-term "48-hour" CR is needed.

Now, under your scenario, there would be no funding until next September. The short-term CR would go from 48 hours to a couple of weeks after the new Congress sits. That would be in the first couple of weeks of February, lets say Thursday, February 12th, two months from now. How does that sound?

My earlier observation was that Boehner's funding of DHS to February 27th was getting to be a decently tight date. That's only about five weeks after the next Congress sits. If Boehner could move that date up only a couple of weeks to, say, February 12th, then conservatives will have reason to be satisfied for now, but only on immigration.

Your approach, however, would be much simpler: one bill with funding to February 12th for the entire government.

Hey, johnny — what are the odds that not a single Republican congress critter will have the cojones to object to the Speaker’s standard practice of requesting ‘unanimous consent’ to skip the reading of the bill (twice, right)? If one single person in that stinking pit of sub-humanity forced the House to follow the rules, we wouldn’t have to worry about a vote on this piece of sludge for what, weeks?

Oh, well, I’m probably wrong about the process anyway — it’s not like I care enough about the liars to take a real interest in how they go about their business. (Actually, I just keep hoping that the alien spaceship from Independence Day zaps the Capitol right after it gets the White House...)
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