aargh

[rivkat]

"Fifty-five percent in the CBS/New York Times poll said the debt ceiling should only be raised if spending cuts are also enacted. Another 24 percent didn't want it raised at all. That means 79 percent of Americans disagree with the president who wants the debt ceiling raised without conditions."  Um, no.  It means that at least 24% were drunk at

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[giandujakiss]

See, I can't help but feel - fuck it, given our political system - where every attempt to keep it from being corrupted is thwarted by the courts- leading to massive dysfunction and the elevation of lunatics to positions of power - we shouldn't be such a powerful lender, the world shouldn't have faith in us, and a default and all the consequences that follow is exactly right. We can't govern ourselves; no one should have faith in our currency.

[likebunnies]

I always figure most of those polls mean "24% of Americans that answered the phone at that time have no real clue what the hell we were asking in the first place but if we had asked them what they felt about the ending of Breaking Bad... oh, that they'd know."

But I could be wrong.

[runedgirl]

Aargh is the appropriate exclamation for this situation, that's for sure :/