http://www.ruralthoughts.net/?q=node/504

The link above is to the last entry I made specifically predicting that, even though the two parties had agreed to these short term extensions of federal government spending authorizations, that eventually they wouldn't agree and there would still be a shutdown, which I had predicted in mid-February.

I thought I was going to be right, but apparently at the last minute the republicans gave in and dropped a couple of their demands which the democrats were not going to accept.

In my thoughts, this indicates a loss for the tea party leaders. In fact, Michelle Bachmann voted against it. The tea party folks don't like government anyway, and they didn't mind shutting it down. Apparently Boehner got political cold feet. Any agreement with the democrats is unacceptable to some of those folks, and the fact that the planned parenthood funding got thru as well as the funding to enforce greenhouse gas emissions. There are likely some unhappy tea partiers today.