Debt Ceiling

It’s always amusing to read postmortems about political tussles; the seemingly irresistible temptation to declare “winners” and “losers” always finds a way to rear its ugly head in the media. When the showdown over the national debt ceiling increase became the latest political football to dominate the cable TV airwaves, it seemed inevitable that the American public was on a fast track to playing spectator to another round of parlor games. But this time it was different.