Joe Manchin: “something unusual is happening in Congress. Democrats and Republicans are agreeing on something; we appear headed toward…”

“something unusual is happening in Congress. Democrats and Republicans are agreeing on something; we appear headed toward same goal. The problem is, what we are agreeing on is more business as usual in Washington. They want to pass yet another continuing resolution instead of a real budget solution. I can almost hear the people back home and all over this country saying, There they go again. I can argue this both ways. A continuing resolution will let the government limp along again for another 6 months. That way, we can go home now and come back after election to fix the budget. I haven't had anybody in West Virginia tell me that we should hurry home to campaign. I have had plenty of them tell me that we need to stay here and do the job they hired us to do. And that means fixing the budget, because our debt is piling up every day and it is choking our economy. These continuing resolutions are supposed to be temporary, but it looks to me as though they have become a permanent way of doing business here in Congress. And let me tell you, it is a bad way of doing business. It ignores the dire circumstances of a record $16 trillion of national debt that will increase close to $1 trillion a year if we don't balance our annual budget, and do it soon. It makes me think of the goofy kid on the cover of Mad Magazine, Alfred E. Neuman, ``What?…”