Shenna Bellows on Budget & Economy

The sequester and the shutdown are unforgiveable

The sequester, the shutdown and the default debacle made his argument for him. It took three weeks and cost our country billions of dollars because grown men and women couldn't put aside their ideology and do the peoples' business. When senators congratulate themselves for doing their jobs--for doing what decent people do all the time and talk through challenges--something is deeply wrong in Washington.

When Congress acts merely to kick the can down the road three months, so that we will continue to lurch from one economic crisis to another, something is deeply wrong in Washington. The sequester and the shutdown are unforgiveable.