Leaving taxpayers hanging and next year's spending bills undone, Congress is rushing to return to the campaign trail, pausing just long enough to agree on a stopgap bill to keep the government from shutting down after Thursday.
After an 18-month burst of legislating that included overhauling the nation's health care system, rewriting rules for Wall Street and repeated efforts to boost the economy, lawmakers punted on the final thorny questions of whether to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and how to cut spending in the next fiscal year.
Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for deadlocking, and about the only thing they settled on was the need to flee Washington, where they've battled relentlessly for months. read on---
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