This is the Congress, GOP Moment of Early Millenium Reckoning

Are We Going to Roll Up Our Sleeves or Limp On? - NYTimes.com

This looks at the inaction of Congress, and the blocking of the Republican Party, to address our nation's ills.

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Revisit it in the future and see, which way did we turn? Did America pull together?

"...We can either roll up our sleeves and do what’s needed to overcome our post-cold war excesses and adapt to the demands of the 21st century or we can just keep limping into the future.

Given those stark choices, one would hope that our politicians would rise to the challenge by putting forth fair and credible recovery proposals that match the scale of our debt problem and contain the three elements that any serious plan must have: spending cuts, increases in revenues and investments in the sources of our strength. But that, alas, is not what we’re getting, which is why there remains an opening for an independent Third Party candidate in the 2012 campaign....