Democrats Escape Their Own Trap

By getting out of their own way, and with some creative book keeping. How low are your expectations when you consider it an achievement when you don't screw yourself up and your math is bad?

[I]n a fortuitous call to Reid’s office Saturday, the Obama administration signaled that FEMA could stretch out its drained resources through Thursday, which coincided with the end of the fiscal year.

It was not an insignificant bit of information: The fight over the proposed offsets rested on the funding for the rest of the current fiscal year. If FEMA no longer needed $1 billion for the current fiscal year, Congress could forego that fight and push forward $2.65 billion for the agency for the next fiscal year, which begins Saturday. Republicans were not demanding offsets for the $2.65 billion level since it fell under the overall budget agreement Congress reached in August to raise the national debt ceiling.

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