Well . . . that was interesting.
I waited up until a little past 11:00 last night, to find out what was going to happen with the budget and whether we’d have a government shutdown. I had geared up for a shutdown, although I recognized that the odds were at least even that nothing of the sort would ever occur.
But, in a weird way, I have to confess to a bit of a letdown that it didn’t happen. Not because I wanted to see the government shut down – God forbid. But because it makes understanding where we are now, politically, as a nation, just a little bit more difficult.
By the time the last few hours, yesterday, were ticking down, the only real dispute was about federal funding of women’s reproductive health services. And, no, that is not a euphemism. And let me repeat that – the federal government was in the process of being shut down, because of a dispute about the funding of women’s health services.
Let’s back up.
