The Great Budget Debate of 2011 has left behind a sour taste and several big questions, including: Who would want to run a country whose hottest exports are IOUs? Why would anybody choose to be a politician when national office means contending with $14 trillion in debt? Increasingly, people are opting out. Even senior senators with safe seats and important chairmanships are announcing that they want to spend more time with their families, which actually means they want to spend less time with Harry Reid, Mitch Mc-Connell, and the like. Yet there is never a dearth of people queued up to replace them.
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