Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship Is Mostly Kabuki

But this cannot continue forever…

A majority of Americans want spending cuts attached to any debt-ceiling increase. As Mike Beckom’s cartoon below indicates, the GOP is attempting to oblige. So now the dance begins…

• The GOP, who are marginally more fiscally responsible than the Democrats, will “demand” some spending sanity.

• The Democrats—who would print, borrow, and spend our way to post-…