It's a minor miracle: Both houses of the Republican-controlled Congress have passed a budget. Now, that's the easy part compared to getting appropriations bills to Obama's desk that he will actually sign. And notwithstanding the bipartisan lovefest that surrounded the House bill fixing Medicare physician reimbursements (held up for the moment in the Senate over abortion), deep philosophical differences between the parties remain. So a standoff between congressional Republicans and the White House is inevitable.