Barack Obama, Congress, and the Great Debate on Debt

The big topic of today is the ever-impending deadline to raise the Federal debt ceiling to prevent default on all our debts. There's a lot I wanted to say, but I ate a whole pizza and now I'm just cranky like a baby.

Pizza, at a time like this!?
Surely you jest.

A man has to eat sometime.

I wanted to really comment on who was wrong about what and what we should do and blah, blah, blah but I can't really find much information about what's going on whilst wading through all the gossip about who Boehner's going to prom with and how Obama's parents won't spring for his and Pelosi's limo/dinner at Red Lobster.

But no, seriously. It's sort of mental to see how much news coverage is centering around the name-calling and backstabbing going on during these big budget talks, and how little anyone is actually talking about the budget issues that are even being discussed. All coverage at the moment is being dedicated to how angry everyone in "the room" is towards each other. Also, people are covering polls that are taken in sort of a "man on the street" kind of way. Soooooooo....

Uninformed public + gossipy new coverage = results that sound like who's voting for who for prom queen.

End of story: If nothing else is working in Washington, I'm at least glad Obama is growing some cajones and standing up to all this bipartisan panty-bunching. Nothing annoys me more than a bunch of people in a room spending so much time arguing that they can't get anything done. That's the reason why my girlfriend and I have dinner separately so often, otherwise we'd both go to bed hungry every night.