Doesn't matter if you think you're a blue or red...

..You're all yellow in my mind.

Back to Econ... I know, I'm tired of writing about it too.  But two things I noticed from TPM.

First, this notion from Dems that the President should just invoke the 14th Amendment, which would essentially allow him to raise the debt ceiling without any need from Congress.  Does this solve the debt ceiling problem?  For now, yes.  Is it the way this should be done?  NO! NO NO NO NO NO!  You cowardly, yellow, spineless politicians - LISTEN UP!  DO YOUR JOB!  You were elected to lead!  Leading requires you to have to be accountable from time to time - AND NOW IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES!  Could it damage your chances of getting re-elected?  Yes.  But guess what?  In three days the United States might default on it's credit, sending the economy into another tailspin.  I don't know if you've noticed, BUT EVERYONE IS HURTING OUT HERE!  You can either do the right thing, hopefully minimize the damage you all have caused in this idiotic tango you all have been playing at the past few weeks, and be held accountable - or you can keep being the writhing, whiny little wastes of oxygen that you are, screw the pooch on this, and then STILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!  You wanted the job - DO YOUR JOB!

I'm sorry.  But that needed to be said.  In caps at times, too.

Secondly, Josh Marshall makes a really great point about how incredibly redundant and moronic it is that we are having this crisis at all.  Maybe someone should LEAD a movement in one of the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE BODIES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT to get rid of it.

And, now that that's all out, bedtime.  Hopefully when I wake up, someone will have an idea of who is leading this great, broke nation of ours - and with any luck it might just be the people who we chose to do it.