Some Links on the Looming Catastrophe
It's been about a month since my last entry, and there are lots of things I'd love to write about, but the crisis in Washington keeps sucking me in. Like many folks, I haven't been directly affected by the shutdown, but as the debt ceiling approaches the chance of absolute catastrophe grows ever larger.
No one knows what will happen, exactly, but this seems to be a pretty good primer. I thought it was neutral enough for Facebook (where I try to resist liberal ranting); it may have been so ten days ago. Now though, conservatives have done their usual about-face, deciding the debt-limit is no big deal now that it's politically convenient for them to say so. Yglesias says this is bunk, but even if he's wrong, Obama would have to unilaterally decide what to fund, and what not to fund. Considering how they went apeshit over the memorial closings I can't imagine them being happy with that situation.
No one knows what will happen, exactly, but this seems to be a pretty good primer. I thought it was neutral enough for Facebook (where I try to resist liberal ranting); it may have been so ten days ago. Now though, conservatives have done their usual about-face, deciding the debt-limit is no big deal now that it's politically convenient for them to say so. Yglesias says this is bunk, but even if he's wrong, Obama would have to unilaterally decide what to fund, and what not to fund. Considering how they went apeshit over the memorial closings I can't imagine them being happy with that situation.