There's not a thing I can say to disagree with Rob's column earlier this morning about the spending deal. It's a horrific, awful, putrid, wretched pile of crap. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan should be strung up for agreeing to it. President Trump should be harangued for signing it, which he's indicated his willingness to do. It's an astonishingly total cave by the party that won last year's election and holds the majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the White House.
There's no defending this deal, and there's no defending the Republicans for agreeing to it. This is all about fearing a Democrat-initiated government shutdown because they figure the media will blame them for it. And yes, the media would. If you're going to shrink from every fight because you're afraid of the media, why did you run for office in the first place?
