Fall political-financial crisis looming.

Fall political-financial crisis looming.: The proximate issue is that even though Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives, it's not a huge majority and they've been consistently unable to come up with a strategy for funding the government's discretionary functions that can pass the House. All Republicans are insisting on freezing sequestration-levels of spending into place on the domestic side while easing it on the military side. Democrats won't vote for that. But the most strident Republicans won't vote for it either. They want to insist on repealing or defunding or otherwise gutting Obamacare as a permission for allowing the government to keep operating past September 30. So they keep not passing anything and taking more days off even as the expiration of government funding keeps getting closer and closer.