Originally Posted by Bucco

Allow me to add to this conversation and perhaps your optimistic views...

Seems that 40 or so senate Dems and Republicans have gotten together and sort of want to "reopen" that committees work.....

"Now, more than 40 Senate Democrats and Republicans have met to discuss the feasibility of using many of those ideas to rewrite the Simpson-Bowles plan and have it ready to offer after the election, in a lame duck session, or early next year. That’s when Congress must address a staggering number of budget and tax issues that, if left unresolved, threaten to jar the economy and possibly push the nation back into a recession."

Read more at Lawmakers Make Yet Another Pitch to Revive Bowles-Simpson

That is good news to me....we are in a serious situation here and looking forward to me has become an exercise in frustration.

Read this article.you will like it...bi partisan and working together...what a concept !!!