Today Congress is sending Pres Obama quick-fix legislation to the air traffic controller's furlough problem - just in time for them to fly home for the weekend.
Will Obama cave and sign off, or will he stand tall and insist Head Start funds be restored? (a rhetorical question).
"...the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever"
-Poet Richard Blanco at President Obama's Inauguration, 01/21/13