Better than nothing #2

And what do We, the People think about the debt deal?

A CNN/ORC International poll finds that by 52% to 44% we disappove of it.

65% approve of the $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade (30% opposed).

60% disapprove of the lack of tax increases in the deal.

And -- the unkindest cut of all -- 77% agreed that the elected officials in Washington have behaved "mostly like spoiled children," while only 17% said they had behaved like "responsible adults."

I suspect that an even higher number in Congress would disapprove of the bill, too, if answering a poll. But they had a responsibility that those being polled don't have. As for me, I would have said, "Yes, definitely, I disapprove." And "Yes, I would have reluctantly voted for it as necessary and better than nothing."

The bill passed both houses by comfortable margins -- because many felt it was necessary and better than nothing:

House 269-161; Senate 74-26.

Obama will sign, and then let's see who gets chosen for the special committee to figure out a deficit reducing plan.

Ralph