Debt talks show breakdown in governing
By Dan Balz,
WashPost
Saturday, July 23, 2:27 PM
What the country is watching is a breakdown in governing that could be as corrosive to the political system as the possible financial default now looming could be to the economy.
Even before Friday’s collapse in the debt talks, public dissatisfaction with Washington was on the rise. The continued impasse threatens a further deterioration in public confidence.
There is great disagreement in Washington over the meaning of last year’s midterm elections, but it’s almost certain that most Americans did not vote for the kind of paralysis that now surrounds the negotiations over the terms of raising the debt ceiling.
Americans voted for, or got, divided government because the public doesn’t fully trust either party with the reins of power. That means the only way out of this problem is through compromise, or what one administration official called “bipartisanship by necessity,” not by choice.
(More here.)
WashPost
Saturday, July 23, 2:27 PM
What the country is watching is a breakdown in governing that could be as corrosive to the political system as the possible financial default now looming could be to the economy.
Even before Friday’s collapse in the debt talks, public dissatisfaction with Washington was on the rise. The continued impasse threatens a further deterioration in public confidence.
There is great disagreement in Washington over the meaning of last year’s midterm elections, but it’s almost certain that most Americans did not vote for the kind of paralysis that now surrounds the negotiations over the terms of raising the debt ceiling.
Americans voted for, or got, divided government because the public doesn’t fully trust either party with the reins of power. That means the only way out of this problem is through compromise, or what one administration official called “bipartisanship by necessity,” not by choice.
(More here.)
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