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The use of appropriations riders to force compromise
The general meme going around right now is that the House is setting some kind of dangerous precedent by attaching legislation to appropriations.
Hasn't this been done many many time before? Isn't this simply a rider?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)
What's new (not entirely) in this case is that both sides are unwilling to compromise.
In the end, though, this is simply an appropriations rider, not some perversion of legislative process to destroy the US government.