And I thought someone told us that we ignore history at our own cost. Presumably that eminent person had no direct acquaintance with the ways of Washington. So. The problem appears to be that in order to get his own party to sign up to keeping the government open leader Boehner has to add in […]

Brinkmanship? Lunacy? Farce? All of the above? I really don’t know what to make of a country that applauds its own self-destructive spiral. America seems hell bent on undermining itself. Its leadership, if that word is any longer appropriate, lurches from press comment, to media circus, to sound bite, to Sunday morning TV round tables, […]