Keep kicking the debt can until the next time

Last Wednesday, Congress did what they appear to be experts at – and that’s very little.

Sure, they did do their best at dueling demagoguery. It’s seemingly what they spend the most time at earning their $175,000 a year. Oh, they did get their regular workout kicking the very dented and nearly crushed debt can down the pothole-pocked road.

A 285-144 vote in the House of Representatives, which followed 81-18 approval in the Senate, allowed about 18-percent of the federal government to reopen and the government to keep spending uncontrollably as they do so well.

President Obama followed Congress...