trillion bill, politics as usual. the republicans were given a mandate. they completely broke it. democrats did the same thing. they passed a bill, business as usual. it shows the hypocrisy in congress and why we can t afford the $1.1 trillion spending bill. tracy, john said this was a flip-flop. in truth, this is hypocrisy and a billion bucks. they caved. i don t know how else to describe it. they completely caved. they come off a victory run and hand it back to the losing team. why didn t that fight. let the democrats shut the government down. do something. show muscle. they gave in on nothing. one small piece of dodd-frank is being deregulated. that is it. they handed a blank slate to the democrats and said do what you