The Debt Dilemma

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2061071,00.html


Leaders of democracies, like bear wranglers at the circus, must be experts at reading moods. Most of the time, the leaders of our two major parties seem to have much the same sense of the voters' basic concerns. But for the past two years, the parties have been operating under very different understandings of the public temper.Read more: