Just five days remain until a key government funding deadline, and even after congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle announced a deal to avert a shutdown until March, the schedule leaves little room for error.
On Sunday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released text for a continuing resolution to extend government funding into March, legislation that will need to pass both chambers of Congress before the end of this week in order to avoid a partial lapse in government funding.
Ross Thomas was a Washington reporter turned crime novelist. His thrillers almost always revolve around corruption and/or dirty politics. In one over-the-top book, “The Fool’s In Town Are On Our Side,” a band of mercenaries is hired to clean up a small Southern city. The plan is to make things so bad that ‘even the pimps will vote for reform.’
Somewhere, Mr. Thomas is laughing his ass off.