Here's the quote of the day on the debt negotiation farce:
Today's intrepid White House pool reporter, The Hill's Sam Youngman, on the state of the negotiations: "DC is a big bag of suck that couldn't solve a rubik's cube if it were all one color."While this may seem like utter incompetence, it might be something.
Remember that both parties are trying to use every crisis as an excuse to redistribute wealth upwards. See this, this and this.
It shouldn't be a surprise that Congress can't get its act together long enough to do anything to help the American people, given that most politicians:
- Live in an entirely different world from the rest of us; and