kootchman
Well, I think Messr Putin thinks Obama is a sock puppet. what he says is largely irrelevant and probably not very consequential. Yes congress can drop Obama in his tracks. So far, the consequences of scorched earth have been too draconian. But there comes a time when you look at things like 20 trillion dollar deficits and trauma care is the last option left if the republic is to live on. He has to get a continuing resolution to get his debt limits raised in the absence of a reconciled budget. The Democratic model of speeding up in ice berg choked waters, and turning off the radar, has an inevitable outcome. You think Putin is contemptuous now.. and he is… (sorta like a leftie, very envious) wait until we no longer are at the helm of our own financial fate.