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[randomness]

Punted to the new year. I obviously can't say I'm surprised.

Waiting until the next time it comes around on the guitar, that's me.

Comments

[rfrancis]

It's 2013... who was being elected anyway?

I fear early 2014 will only be worse, as, in particular, Republican representatives will be doing what they must to avoid being primaried from the right.

[drwex]

You're right, I had 2014 in my head.

That said, it's become accepted wisdom that the current gerrymandered set-up makes it so that the majority of the House don't give a rat's ass about anything national. I don't think that's likely to change at any point before 2018 (when most of the state-level elections start to happen for the assemblies that will do redistricting based on the 2020 census), So from that point of view, kicking the can down the road a few months does no harm.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

If they use the time they've just gained to come to some sort of agreement, that's one thing. If all we're going to get is more of the same, but in the winter instead of the fall, that's no help.

I guess we'll see.

[rfrancis]

Well, and this is why I mentioned the worry of being primaried -- they're not concerned about being beaten by a Democrat opponent so much as someone (with more money than sense, frankly) funding a further-right opponent to run against them in the primaries. This has been evident in the last few House election cycles and I don't see it letting up now; indeed, this "loss" for the far right (as they see it) is going to likely make a lot of the tea partying crowd double down. Cynical, perhaps, but...

Anyway, the deal's probably the best outcome that was going to happen (from the standpoint of people in the real world that aren't sheltered from the effects of this sort of chicanery, I mean) so oh well; as L.M. says, we do it all over again in a few months and see what new master plan has been half-baked. :)