Republicans holding us hostage yet again.

[Soleron]

Screamapillar said:

Soleron said:

Screamapillar said:

badgenome said:

spaceguy said:

I study Economics and am taking a class in that and political science.

Ask for a refund, IMO.

Better yet... don't ask for a refund.  Better if you dump your tuition funds back into the economy.  At least then some good is coming of it.

Purchasing for purchasing's sake and then counting that as growth is a large part of the problem.

So uh

The Republicans are narrow-minded to bring a country to a paralysing crisis setting that lowers confidence in government, and:
The Democrats are too weak to propose anything bold at all

The word 'bold' in the context you're using it in scares me to death.  Generally speaking, doing something 'bold' in politics means spending even more money and raising revenues.  We know how that gets done... scraping even more money off the top and sapping capital from the only segment of the country that actually generates true growth: small, private businesses.

I said propose. So Obama says, we're going to get out of this by laying fibre to every home,  raising actual academic standards in every school, high speed rail in every city, etc.

And then the Rpublicans can say, we will get out by cutting taxes, by cutting social programmes, by eliminating waste.

And the country gets to choose between two complete, respectful, competent proposals.

Instead we get personal attacks, self-interest, and lots of uncertainty/policy division that scares away investors. It's the mechanical problems that are the worst, not the ideological ones. A Republican party that did what it claims to believe in (small government) would be constructive in opposition as well as in power.