Actually, Mudcat awakened on the day it was born a decade ago. This was more or less the days when the United States was on the road to a surplus.....

Another victim of the bipartisanship fiasco yesterday -- Mr. Gregg, having decided that he too wished to do nothing to help the American people, decided to abandon the Obama administration. Given that he is not going to be running again, it is a pity the voters in his state in 2 years time -- when they will be in even bigger trouble than they are now given the pusillanimity of the Congress -- will not have the pleasure of booting him out.