PRUDEN: Waiting for the enemy to blink on the debt limit - Washington Times

PRUDEN: Waiting for the enemy to blink on the debt limit - Washington Times

Euphemism, however vague, cute or inexact, won’t work this time if the Republicans can resist the urge, preserved deep within their DNA, to fold in the clutch. Taxes are an affliction that everyone understands; a CBS News poll finds that more than 60 percent of all Americans think Congress should not raise the debt ceiling. This obviously doesn’t mean the 60 percent think we should become deadbeats, like certain Europeans. The 60 percent understands that the prospect of default is all that can persuade Democrats drunk on spending that ruinous, reckless and irresponsible profligacy is an addiction with limits.

Maggie Thatcher years ago diagnosed the terminal ailment of socialists. “They always run out of other people’s money.” Sarah Palin, who sets liberal teeth on edge with her gift of cutting colorfully to the chase, observes that “the Sugar Daddy has run out of money.” We haven’t run out of money, not quite yet, but we take the ladies’ point.

From one of the best writers ever.