Baby Talk Bill Kristol I was struck by these sentences in President Obama’s speech: "Now, what makes today’s stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling – a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before. Understand – raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up." Consider the condescension implicit in the president’s statement—“a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of...
