Crisis has been averted: The government will probably not shut down at the end of the week, because Democrats put together a giant spending omnibus thing that will fund it for the next fiscal year. And what's in the omnibus? Nobody really knows, but it's all greased up and seems to have been cooked well, if you just look at its skin. "That's an omnibus," a senator probably said, looking at the giant stack of 1,924 pages. "Very omnibus. Let's just go ahead and pass it. It's making me hungry looking at it. Omnibus!" $1.1 trillion seems like a nice, round, debt-padding number, so it likely will be passed. Even though John Thune says it looks pretty evil to him.
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Sponsors had proposed the title "All-Purpose Spending Reconciliation Act," but the bill wishes to remain an omnibus.
Sure, if you remove the stick that's up there first. Careful, it's a big one.
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Needz moar tax cuts for the richers.
AND all Wonkette commenters will get back their whore diamonds that mysteriously disappeared in a fit of internets pique one day.
Can I use my SF Muni Fast Pass on the omnibus?
you know that 'clear will expressed by the voters this past election'?
fuck that.
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