Stumbling Toward Disaster

David Frum, former speechwriter for George W. Bush:

But in the argy-bargy, keep this in mind: the debt problem has become a debt crisis for one reason only: because Republicans put the threat of debt default on the table.

That never needed to happen.

House Republicans could have kept the debt ceiling issue wholly separate from the budget cut issue.

★ Friday, 22 July 2011