And now you OWN the failure, spunky.
Roll in it, how does it taste? Tastes like... legacy?
It depends in the end on how severe the political backlash to this debacle will be but it certainly isn’t a leadership failure to talk about the debt. Debating a possible default along with a credit downgrade are one of the most positive outcomes that could have happened to this country if it does indeed awake a sleeping dragon.