[This is] a government that lurches from crisis to crisis, addicted to the threat of self-immolation, utterly incapable of passing a simple bill until it’s finished bathing in gasoline and touched the match head to the striking surface. Call it Borderline Governance Disorder. We’ll avoid default, thank God. But dumb, unyielding, and addicted to havoc is no way to go through a century.
Derek Thompson, What The Debt “Trigger” Says About Washington’s Crisis Addiction.  (via theatlantic)

Always crisis control, never pro-active preventative thinking…

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