Maybe if the senate had not loaded this bill up with unrelated pork,
it might have had a better chance.
We didn't even attack the deficit with the cliff bill. They added debt
and kicked the can 2 months down the road.
When will the world simply stop buying our bonds? The treasury is
buying back 80% of the new issues now using money they create out of
thin air. That shows how soft the market in our paper actually is.
More likely, the House Repugnants were showing the people of a "Blue
State" that they really didn't give a **** about them.