I honestly don't know what all these temporary stop gap budget bills are accomplishing. It's like the NFL labor talks; they just keep putting off the inevitable.The Hill: Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, predicted a House GOP proposal to cut spending by $6 billion over three weeks would pass the upper chamber."I think it will pass, in the House this week and later in the Senate," Durbin said Sunday morning on CNN's "State of the Union, dismissing the possibility of a government shutdown at the end of this week. "It buys us about three weeks and includes cuts which we've offered on the Democratic side in an effort to find a reasonable compromise here."I hope that the Republican leadership in the House will see this as a signal of good faith," he said. The current stop-gap spending measure will expire after March 18. The proposal, introduced by House Republicans Friday, would fund the federal government through April...(Read Full Post)