“If the U.S. government shuts down again in mid-January, it won’t be because House Republicans are demanding the repeal of the president’s health care law, in a repeat of the standoff that occurred earlier this fall,” the Huffington Post reports.
Said a senior House GOP aide: “There are no plans to tie a repeal vote to a government funding bill.”
Still, we live in an era when they actually have to make a pledge to not doing something this screwy.