Tag: do the right thing

The Political Animal’s post on this subject is simply too good for me to alter. From PA: I can’t help but think the vast majority of the public just doesn’t fully appreciate what’s transpiring here. We’re dealing, after all, with fairly obscure legal mechanisms. Most Americans don’t know what the federal debt ceiling is, and in fairness, they’ve never had to. It’s a law that was approved more than eight decades ago, and hasn’t been particularly controversial or even relevant since. Policymakers have always realized they have an obligation — legal, economic, moral, and otherwise — to do the right thing.