Page éditoriale du NY Times en réaction au vote de la Chambre des représentants contre la hausse du plafond de la dette... Je dois avouer que cette façon de "jouer" avec le crédit américain ne fait pas "noble", de la bien petite politique. Pas étonnant que dans les sondages les américains soient très critiques envers leurs représentants, bien plus qu'envers Obama. En passant, la stratégie n'est pas exclusivement républicaine, des démocrates ont joué le jeu...
"No matter how they tried to spin it, 318 House members actually voted against paying the country’s bills and keeping the promise made to federal bondholders. That’s an incredibly dangerous message to send in a softening global economy. Among the jokesters were 236 Republicans playing the politics of extortion, and 82 feckless Democrats who fret that Republicans could transform a courageous vote into a foul-smelling advertisement.
The games that now pass for governing in an increasingly embarrassing 112th Congress are menacing the nation’s future. It was bad enough when Republicans threatened to shut down the government to achieve their extreme and extremely misguided spending cuts, but that threat would have caused temporary damage. The debt limit is something else altogether. If the global credit markets decide that the debt of the United States will regularly be held hostage to ideological demands, it could cause significant harm to investment in long-term bonds and other obligations. That, in turn, could damage domestic credit markets and easily spark another recession."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/opinion/02thu1.html?_r=1&hp
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