Yep. 900B planned reduction in the rate of increase in spending over ten years doesn't mean anything when the annual deficit is a trillion or two. And in exchange, the taxpayers give them a credit line increase of what, 2.4T, just to tide them over until the 2012 election?
The 'emergency' was entirely intentional.
Imagine you're driving along and there's this wall ahead. You can steer so that you don't hit it, or you can aim right at it with the gas pedal to the floor, and yell 'tear down this wall' right before impact.
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