photo credit: erin mEzra Klein has the goods:
The good news is that law will keep the government’s lights on until early March. The bad news is that the law does it by extending 2010′s funding resolution — and that resolution didn’t include provisions for implementing the bills that were passed as the year went on.
Republicans had been talking about attacking the health-reform law by defunding it, but few thought they’d succeed without a fight. The assumption was that Democrats would shut down the government before they let Republicans take that money. But as it happened, there was no fight at all.
So the question of repeal now becomes three-fold: Will HHS be able to stand up all the programs that were written into ObamaCare with pre-passage spending levels? And, if not, how much easier will repeal be? Or will we start the 112th Congress with a nasty appropriations fight?
