Dick Durbin - longtime Democratic senator from Illinois: "Let me be honest with you ... in the next 100 days before the election, the political environment is not one for compromise and negotiation," the Illinois Democrat said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked about prospects for a debt agreement.
So forget that he is one the of most partisan senators on the hill, should we accept this answer from one of the most powerful people in our government. What ever side of the aisle people are one, this is not an acceptable answer! We need people who should be talking compromise and problem solving like the www.fixthedebt.org campaign by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. How has a problem ever been fixed when people will not even talk about meeting in the middle.
As a citizen of this great nation, comments like this and the continued ignoring of our debt problems, make me think that Americans sometimes want to bury their heads in the sand and ignore this issue. Come on America, wake up and do not accept people on either side of the aisle who won't even discuss working this issue out..
Happy Olympic watching....