No Debt Line On The Horizon

Remember the debt? Neither, apparently, does amyone else:

If America doesn’t tackle its debt problem, everything else is at risk: economic growth, the safety net for the poor, investment in research and roads. Over the past two years, Obama and congressional Republicans have squandered one chance after another to get serious about fiscal reform. A better political moment is always just over the horizon.

Now the horizon is the November election, and the moment is supposedly the lame-duck session afterward or the beginning of the next administration.

The issue won't go away just because nobody wants to talk about it anymore...