German reaction to our debt disput - strange who they blame

*n That Case, The World Had Better Pay Up: *That was my first (and
admittedly ill-tempered) reaction to this story
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,774666,00.html> from
Germany.

The mass-circulation Bild writes:

"Playing poker is part of politics, as is theatrical posturing.
That's fair enough. But what America is currently exhibiting is
the worst kind of absurd theatrics. And the whole world is being
held hostage."

"Irrespective of what the correct fiscal and economic policy should
be for the most powerful country on earth, it's simply not possible
to stop taking on new debt overnight. Most importantly, the
Republicans have turned a dispute over a technicality into a
religious war, which no longer has any relation to a reasonable
dispute between the elected government and the opposition."

Because there isn't a nation in the world that is capable of mounting a
hostage rescue mission against the US.

I might not have reacted so sharply to that collection of German
reactions to our crisis, if it were not for this fact: Not one of the
selections that /Der Spiegel/ published mentioned President Obama's
failure to /even present a plan/ to solve our long-term fiscal problems.
But it is the Republicans these news organizations blame, mostly.

(Here's a description of /Bild/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild>, if
you are wondering what kind of newspaper it is.)
- 12:10 PM, 17 July 2011 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2011_3.html#jrm10082>

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