If there's anything the last few years have taught us...

[randomness]

...it's that when they're faced with a hard deadline, politicians' first impulse is to kick the can down the road.

It's been true in Europe, and it seems to be the same in the States.

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[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

I just heard a great quote, about how the two things politicians do (as a class) to get elected are to promise more spending and less taxing, and that they are thus (as a class) completely unprepared to deal with situations that call for the opposite of both.