"The only guy who seems genuinely concerned about the condition of the US economy is Toomey. The rest just don’t want to ruffle any feathers. If we can’t get more sensible people like Toomey in this go round, we are doomed."
Toomey deeply disappointed me with his tax hike proposal. I agree that he truly cares about the economy, and I know he wanted to try to prevent a larger tax increase when the Bush rates expire- but I think he played his cards very poorly here.
How else can you play them when everyone around the table is a crook. This whole thing is disgusting. Hard decisions need to be made and everyone acts like things are business as usual. If we don’t get this under control fast, the European meltdown will take us down too. It is time to get ahead of this thing.