Debt ceiling debate is just a preview to the main attraction
Matt Miller, Washington Post columnist and a Board member at Understanding Government, points out today that “averting calamity [has become] the modern measure of success” in American politics. We’re so busy navigating our way out of crises that there’s no time to solve national problems or tackle the biggest questions we face as a nation. If President Obama and the Congress agree to raise the debt ceiling, Miller writes, “we’ll be treated to a news conference in which our leaders congratulate themselves for raising the debt limit.” Instead, we should be focusing on solving America’s biggest problems. Miller riffs on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s well-known phrase (more…)