Playing with Fire

Both political parties are being awfully cavalier with our country's fiscal and economic health during this debate over raising the debt ceiling. Raising the debt ceiling has never been this kind of long, drawn-out partisan warfare before, at least not this close to the deadline.

It seems a deal has been close a couple of times, but both sides have pulled back. Reading the statements of some Republicans for example, they seem pretty convinced nothing bad is going to happen if we drag this...