The big plan, the short-term plan and the medium plan for raising the debt ceiling and coming up with a deficit busting program have gotten extensive and appropriate media coverage.
What’s going on in Washington is a disgrace and an embarrassment. The U.S. government’s AAA credit rating has already taken a hit from this inane political braggadocio and will take a further hit should an agreement not be reached by next week.
The political posturing that is underway is offensive and obvious to all of us—so much so that voters jammed the email servers and phone lines of dozens of congressional offices this week in response to President Obama asking people to let their elected representatives know their thoughts about the budget and debt ceiling impasse.
These people are grownups whose job it is to represent our best interests. It is not in our best interests for anybody, regardless of what side of the aisle they sit on, to refer to the serious business of raising the debt ceiling and addressing the federal deficit as kicking the can down the road. Kick the can is a game. This is not.
And, while politicians in Washington are engineering the negotiations with an eye to the 2012 presidential election and their own re-election efforts, that is of little interest to the average American who is increasingly disgusted by the partisanship, the gamesmanship, the one-upsmanship and the pandering to the extreme fringes of both parties.
Other than the efforts of the president to sit down with leaders of both parties and seek a solution, it cannot be said that Speaker of the House John Boehner nor Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have made a good faith effort to sit down and comes to terms.
To endanger the country’s credit rating and leave Social Security recipients, Medicare recipients and the country’s neediest citizens at risk is unconscionable, irresponsible and reprehensible.
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