On this issues, both sides are equally guilty. This is why Congress has a 13% approval rating. It is their job to pass budgets, control spending, and use our tax dollars wisely. The whole atmosphere is poisioned. Both sides are willing to spend millions and billions of dollars to make a point and waste time on issues that they know will not pass. The reason they will not pass is a creation of their own making. Ninety nine percent of the Congress is more concerned with playing games, wasting money, holding on to power, and taking time off from work than they are about running the country by the Constitution and serving the people. Not a one of them deserve reelection, and a good part of them deserve prison.