The fashionable punditry on the current debt-ceiling debate is criticism of elected officials in Washington for failing to "act like grown-ups" and just "do their job."There's plenty of truth in this exasperated assessment of a battle that often features more electoral posturing than anything else, but the critique also ignores an important truth: Today's debate reflects sincere substantive policy disagreements about the appropriate size of government and the best way to finance it. Given the profound nature of the disagreements, calls for Congress to...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/29/who_are_the_real_extremists_in_this_debate_260392.html
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