Much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments has been made about the admittedly underwhelming debt ceiling bill. There was something wrong with it for everyone, and the fact that the tea party forced the matter seemed to make it all the worse.
With the tea party faction behaving, as Joe Biden correctly described, as terrorists, of course there is a predictable chorus from the usual suspects that Obama was, once again, “caving.”
However, the whole show reminded me not so much of a hostage negotiation as the famous parable involving Solomon.