“We’ve got to break the habit of negotiating through crisis over and over again,” President Obama declared during his press conference Monday on the coming debt limit fight. We strongly agree. It would be much more responsible to confront the nation’s problems in a thoughtful, orderly and transparent way when a crisis is not imminent, rather than wait for doomsday and slap together midnight deals that not even lawmakers — let alone the American people — have time to study before the measures go to a vote.
Obama would like to lay all the blame on Republicans for the harsh and divisive tone in Washington during his presidency. But judging by his first term, Obama deserves a lion’s share of the blame. It almost seems that Obama needs a massive crisis before he’ll even reach out to the opposing party.
