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Three-day republican retreat that takes them away from washington, and that really leaves them only about six governing days to write a new spending bill. that logically means they will probably have to do another short-term spending bill, which is precisely the thing they said they didnt want to do. whats really interesting here, though, is the way mcconnell set up this agreement is that they cant shut down the government if they want to have a vote on immigration. so there is a little bit of b...

Then the house says, not here. >> thats absolutely a danger. the thing to keep in mind, yes, the deadline they have set up is february 8th. but between now and february 8th is the state of the union and a three-day republican retreat that takes them away from washington, and that really leaves them only about six governing days to write a new spending bill. that logically means they will probably have to do another short-term spending bill, which is precisely the thing they said they didnt want ...

Is precisely the thing they said they didnt want to do. whats really interesting here, though, is the way mcconnell set up this agreement is that they cant shut down the government if they want to have a vote on immigration. so there is a little bit of binding here for democrats. there is an incentive to keep the government open, but there really isnt such a thing over in the house, and the only way the house is going to pick up something that passes the senate is if they have a sense that the w...