Paul Krugman: Consider what went down in Congress last week: 1) House leaders had to cancel planned voting on a transportation bill, because not enough representatives were willing to vote for the bill’s steep spending cuts - a significant number of representatives, while willing to vote for huge spending cuts as long as there weren’t any specifics, balked at the details; 2) House leaders announced plans to hold a vote cutting spending on food stamps in half; 3) they held the pointless vote on Obamacare; 5) they went home for recess, even though the end of the fiscal year is looming and hardly any of the legislation needed to run the federal government has passed. In other words, Republicans, confronted with the responsibilities of governing, essentially threw a tantrum, then ran off to sulk.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:07:06 +0000
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