The minority leader of the U.S. Senate now admits that any kind of bi-partisan agreement on spending cuts and an increase in the debt limit is not politically possible. As many of us expected, the people who were elected to do the people's business are so idelogically and politically polarized that they are unwilling to agree on anything except their personal desires. They are fully prepared and willing to run the country off a financial cliff for personal, political purposes.

So the GOP leader is proposing that the President and the President alone can prescribe budget cuts so long as they equal the amount that the debt limit is increased?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...debt-limit/?hp

This is a complete abdication of the responsibility of members of Congress. It's as if the Congress--at least the GOP leader in the Senate--is saying "...Congress is completely broken and cannot work, so lets just appoint the POTUS as king..."

Unbelievable! I wonder what the framers of the Constitution would say about this? Or if they could ever have foreseen how broken our political system would become, whether they'd have written the Constitution they way they did.