From USA TODAY:
Members of Congress care more about their own re-election campaigns than about the nation’s economy. Leaders in the House and Senate spend all their time battling. The White House won’t take charge.
A pox on the lot of them.
So say many Americans after weeks of watching political wrangling over how to cut spending and whether to raise taxes as part of a deal to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2 so the federal government won’t have to default on its loans for the first time…
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EDITOR: The deficit issue was a matter for budget negotiations. By making it an issue concerning paying debts, the Republicans turned raising the debt ceiling performed 86 times in the past into a national disgrace and possible worldwide disaster. Let’s hope the public is smart enough to place the blame where it belongs come 2012. However, we wouldn’t hold our breath.
