Whew...

I was just getting ready to move from disheartened to incensed - having just been reminded by the news anchor that our representatives in Washington would continue to get paid regardless of a shutdown - when the news of the government budget deal came through.  Good thing, too...my blood pressure was about to break the monitor.  How incredibly annoying that we have to go through this game-playing process to get things accomplished.  I grow increasingly cynical about the motives behind Washington political moves: anyone else think this only happened because of fear for the results of the next election?  When are Washington politicians going to start thinking about the good of the country instead of the security of their jobs?  Was it Thomas Jefferson who said something to the effect that we should never elect the people who want the job?  Good advice, whoever said it.