Nous pouvons remarquer depuis novembre dernier le climat malsain qui règne au Congrès américain. Les dernières négociations ont été honteuses à mon avis. Certains républicains détestent Obama au point où ils font d'une éventuelle défaite de l'actuel Président le but ultime de leurs actions. Pas étonnant dans ce contexte qu'on se soucie peu de la crédibilité des mesures envisagées pour relancer l'économie ou diminuer la dette.
""I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn't think that. What we did learn is this -- it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done."
This captures the legislative dynamic on Capitol Hill with blunt honesty. When they won an extension of the Bush tax cuts in December 2010, before their newly elected members were sworn in, Republicans settled on a strategy that works -- and they'll have plenty of opportunities to employ it again in the months ahead.
In fact it's already happening.
After the debt limit bill passed, the House of Representatives began its August recess. "The next votes in the House are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7," the Majority Leader's office alerted members on Monday. Left unmentioned: the House and Senate are still mired in a long fight over FAA funding -- one that has resulted in a partial shutdown of the agency. Before leaving town House Republicans passed a take-it or leave-it, one-month extension of FAA funding that cuts funds rural airports, including some in the states of key Democratic senators."
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/legislating-by-crisis-a-chronicle-of-the-coming-hostage-dramas-on-capitol-hill.php?ref=fpa
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