This Graph Explains Why Obama Rejected the Piecemeal Approach to Funding Government

[Mass]

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/this-graph-explains-why-obama-rejected-the-piecemeal-approach-to-funding-government/280408/

This Graph Explains Why Obama Rejected the Piecemeal Approach to Funding Government
The piecemeal approach is a plan to both fund government as soon as possible and leave government unfunded as long as possible

The government is still shut down, as thousands of workers go without pay, food goes without inspection, and sick patients go without clinical trials. Meanwhile, Republicans have offered to restore funding on a piece-by-piece basis that would pay some of those workers and treat some of those patients.

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There is a graph for this, of course. Michael Linden counts up the six piecemeal non-defense appropriations bills passed by the House (and unsigned by the president) and the eight other bills the House wants to pass in the coming weeks. "Together, these 14 bills allocate approximately $83.1 billion in funding," Linden writes. That would leave 82 percent of the $470 billion non-defense discretionary government unfunded.

In other words (and colors), Obama wants to fund the whole pie below. The GOP, which would like to pair government funding with Obamacare's defunding or delay, is asking him to fund the blue slices only. The White House's logic is that passing the blue stuff makes it more likely that we go even longer without the larger, redder part of the pie.

[Richardo]

1. Plus: Government is not separate departments operating in their own bubbles, like FOX and GOP.

Each one of those requires input, data, coordination, and other interactions with a myriad of other governmental departments, agencies, etc.

It wouldn't work even if it weren't a monumentally idiotic idea, which of course it is.

[DevonRex]

8. Exactly. nt

[RC]

2. It looks lie the Blue stuff is stuff that people would notice and miss sooner.,

[JI7]

3. OBama said the Republicans only want to fund those because those are the things which usually get

attention from media and things people notice more easily and they would get criticism from people including constitutents on it.

[rgbecker]

4. Just another word for "Divide and Conquer".

Age old method to defeat the opposition.

Another example: union busting. and oh yeah, "line item veto".

Republicans may be a victim yet as the tea party splinters the remains of the GOP.

[Cha]

5. thanks Mass

[Tx4obama]

6. K&R n/t

[gopiscrap]

7. Good for Obama