neadods | Still ain't over

So, we get to go back to work.

In a last-second deal that leaves sequestration - and that alone is a partial default that came about because Congress couldn't get its act in gear in time and agree like grownups, REMEMBER THAT. In a last-second deal that only delays this again a handful of months. In a last-second deal that the majority of House Republicans voted against and are today vowing to "continue the fight."

Nothing is fixed. Nothing is learned. NOTHING IS CHANGED. Wait, one thing has. The country's spent $23 billion on shutting down and restarting. Because the fiscally responsible thing to stop overspending is to spend billions for... no benefit at all.

This isn't a victory. It merely means I go back to work.

I go back to work with a smaller paycheck because I was bumped to leave without pay. I go back to work without any leave banked - meaning more leave without pay to come. I go back to work with just as much of a case as to why I earned a raise this year, but a company thrown into debt itself by loaning paid leave to hundreds of people, and thus will get nothing. I go back to work in an economy that

I go back to work with my travel plans still ruined, my Christmas spending reduced to miserly levels, a future full of echoing repercussions.

The same people who claim to be the adults who'll fix a dysfunctional govt did this to us all, acting like schoolchildren while they were at it.

And to my amazement, the same tea party that cut Boehner off at the knees twice in his own grandstanding Hail Mary plays is praising him today. In four months, will he think the third time is the charm?