  I don't like the deal either but I don't know what kind of a deal you guys think we are going to get when the dems control the senate and the white house. As for the commentor who said to offer CR's every week until the dems cave and the repubs won't be blamed I wonder where you were during the shutdown when the repubs kept making offes that were automatically refused by the senate and the white house and the repubs still got he blame for it. How do you suppose it would turn out differant now?  What this deal really is for leadership is the Shutdown Prevention Act of 0000. They're terrified that if there's another budget standoff next month and the government goes unfunded again, all of the anti-ObamaCare momentum that the GOP has built up against Democrats right now will disintegrate. Avoiding that is their top priority, so they agreed to swap policy gains for political ones