Author Topic: We avoided the frisky cliff  (Read 420 times)

Offline Ted S

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Re: We avoided the frisky cliff
« on: January 04, 2013, 01:44:37 pm »
And the House just passed a much more reasonable hurricane relief bill:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323374504578221561827167752.html

So the failure of Boehner to allow a vote on the pork-laden bill proposed earlier this week probably saved billions of dollars but delayed the money by 3 days.  Seems like a good trade-off to me.