Shutdown averted? Don't be fooled

With the government shutdown staved off, all is well in America from tonight until the end of time, right?

Think again.

This deal only delays the possibility of a shutdown for another week. Once again, the Democrats brang a Nerf gun to the cannon fight the Republicans started. They compromised when they shouldn't have. Any time you compromise with a party that acts in bad faith, you lose. Period. I know from experience.

And while you lose, the other side walks away laughing to themselves.

Here's what I think happened: I believe the Republicans are going to delay the shutdown until they can make sure it overlaps over the beginning of a month. If you've been reading this blog, I don't even need to tell you why: It's so people who get Social Security, disability insurance, or public assistance don't get their check.

The GOP really is mean enough to do something like that. The Republicans are the folks who bullied you in school when you were growing up.

And they get away with it, because people don't fight back - except in Madison, Wisconsin, and on the pages of this blog. If I was a Democratic leader in Congress, I would have had the other side caked in humiliation within a month after this session started.