Musing of one watching three ants, two on one side, trying to move a leaf in opposite directions. The leaf was not moving.

So now we have the grand debacle of the government shut down because of the inflexible positions of two or three politicians. It is too bad we don't have someone like Ronald Reagan (Republican) and Tip O'Neill ( Democrat). When serious problems arose those two would sit down together and work them out. I think our current crop of politicians could take a lesson from Reagan and O'Neill. But as inflexible as they are, they probably won't.

Somehow we will muddle through this.