Democrats, especially Obama, do things for 2 reasons: vote-pandering or money.

In off-years, votes don’t mean squat…so, you can bet Obama’s ploy is about money.

Republicans control the House of Representatives, where budgets are created…and as it happens, the current budget deal expires in a couple of days. Many were suggesting that a short-term budget should be sent to the Senate, funding the government for only a month or so until the GOP takes Senate control this coming January.

Obama and cohort want a budget resolution that takes them to the end of September, but don’t want to be seen as causing the inevitable shutdown if vetoing a short-term bill.

An executive action amnesty threat creates sound-&-fury amongst the Republicans, and their typical threat of defunding certain aspects of any budget that covers the amnesty.

Cue the media, who predict the knee-jerk ‘government shutdown’ mania and doom for Republicans who will be held responsible by the voting public…and GOP panic ensues.

Result: the GOP-led House is buffaloed into giving Obama what he wants…a Democrat cash-stuffed budget through September 2015, not a GOP-budget created in January.

Sadly, it sounds like Republicans are going to fall for it again.