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Signing a new bipartisan budget bill into law today before another government shutdown, President Barack Obama touted cooperation from both sides of the aisle. Securing the budget until 2017, Obama praised the agreement as proof Republicans and Democrats could work together. With House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) shepherding the bill as his last official duty before retirement Oct. 30, it’s Obama’s wishful thinking that there’s more bipartisanship on the way. Taking over House Speaker Oct. 30, 45-year-old Tea Party favorite Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), formerly House Budget Committee Chairman and more recently House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, shows now interest in working with Obama on anything. Ryan’s already rebuffed Barack on immigration reform, saying he won’t raise the issue before the Nov. 2 presidential election.

Acquiescing the budget deal, the House’s Freedom Caucus, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranted about raising the debt ceiling, something fiscal conservatives view as economic suicide. Obama talks now in his last 14 months in office about bipartisan cooperation. When he signed Obamacare into law March 23, 2010 without one Republican vote, he hit bipartisanship with a sledgehammer. Since then, he’s faced bitter GOP opposition on almost all of the White House’s agenda. “It should finally free us from the cycle of shutdown threats and last-minute fixes and allows us to, therefore, plan for the future,” said Obama, touting the deal that lets him skate for the remainder of his term. Were it not for the hotly contested White House race, House Republicans led by Ryan would have gladly shut down and defaulted the U.S. government, demanding more cuts to popular entitlements.

Passing the budget bill Oct. 30, the Senate rushed the legislation to beat the Nov. 2 deadline before the government shutdown. When former House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan shut down the government Oct. 2, 2013, he had no qualms of sending some 800,000 federal workers to the unemployment lines. Trying to stop Obamacare, Republicans, led by Ryan, took a PR beating, causing federal workers great hardship but, more importantly, damaging the fragile economic recovery. Obama’s kidding himself thinking he’s in a news era of bipartisan cooperation. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, desperately wanting to return to the White House in 2016, begged House conservatives to pass the budget. After evicted from House Speaker by Jordan’s Freedom Caucus, Boehner stuck the Tea Party in the eye one last time passing the budget.

Calling the budget deal “a signal of how Washington should work,” Obama tried to find a silver lining, despite the election year ploy. Between now and Election Day, Democrats and Republicans will slug it out for all the marbles. “My hope is now that they build on this agreement with the spending bills that also invest in America’s priorities—without getting sidetracked by a whole bunch of ideological issues that have nothing to do with the budget,” said the president. Fighting in the GOP primaries, the major Republicans contenders, with the possible exception of real estate tycoon Donald Trump, want to shrink the size of the federal establishment. Obama got his budget only because of presidential politics. If the election were over, the GOP would shut down and default the government in a heartbeat to stop an increase in the debt ceiling—something Democrats take for granted.

Increasing spending by $80 billion, the spending bill allows for equal spending increases on social welfare and defense spending. Preventing an increase in outpatient fees for 15 million Medicare subscribers, the bill also reinstates funding for the Social Security Disability trust fund. Another $16 billion is guaranteed to the State and Defense Departments to accommodate inflated war spending. Balancing between defense and entitlement spending, Republicans and Democrats got some of what they wanted. More conservative members of the House would have preferred massive cutbacks in the nation’s entitlement programs. Presidential candidates, like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), believe there’s no mandate in the U.S. Constitution for entitlements. Paul’s stated for the record, mirroring his Tea Party friends, that he’d end all government largess if elected president.

Obama’s great expectations for a new era of bipartisan cooperation isn’t just wishful thinking, it’s silly smoke blowing. Boehner made it clear that he cobbled together the deal with RNC backing to spare GOP voters fallout during and election year. If the GOP, under Ryan’s House leadership, really got its way, it would have shut down and defaulted the U.S. government to prevent another debt-ceiling increase. While the government’s budget is capped at $50 billion in 2016 and $30 billion in 2017, the money must be spent equally on defense and social programs. Obama gets smooth sailing for the final 14 months of his second term but won’t get anything done without executive edicts. Complaing about Obama’s Nov. 21, 2014 amnesty order, Ryan scoffed at the possibility working on immigration reform or anything else until the president finishes his second term Jan. 20, 2017.