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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It all sounds a bit 'High Noon' -ish....seeing who will blink first.
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That would give a stereotypically American twist to the situation ... but the metaphor doesn't really work. Democrats are in a "win - win" position here. If the US goes over the edge, Republicans get the blame. If they avoid the mess, Obama and the "reasonable-seeming" Democrats will get the credit. What is at stake is the future of the Republican Party as we know it. Republicans know this.
Same thing is going on with European economies, admittedly without the Hollywoodesque drama that the yanks do so well. Cut government spending; spare the rich so that they can generate jobs and wealth; that sort of stuff. Osborne would make a good Republican
Difference is that the problems in Europe are real; the ones in the States are, ... well, as one Senator observed: "There's so much manure that there has to be a pony around somewhere."