The focus and attention span of the media, the American public, the financial markets and our politicians is nothing short of remarkable.
Now the fact that our politicians are willing to let a crisis of this potential magnitude, not even a week old, fade to the background is understandable. These are not courageous men, but merely sheep who will do nothing unless it is politically expedient to do so. They are actually in many cases the worst types of cowards who will put their own political careers and financial gain ahead of national security
Our leaders (actually a misnomer because they typically follow and do not lead) will make all of the right statements (right meaning what it is they think people want to hear), make all of the correct platitudes (the political art of seeming to do or say something meaningful when you are actually saying nothing at all), pander to all of their proper base constituents (working towards their next term) and at the end of the day do absolutely nothing.
clipped from: politicsandfinance.blogspot.com 