politique<\/strong> fondamental ne peut plus gu\u00e8re \u00eatre \u00e9vit\u00e9e, sans savoir, sans le moindre doute, sur quoi il d\u00e9bouchera.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tKrugman d\u00e9marre d’abord sur ce qu’il annonce comme une crise majeure, qui va \u00eatre l’affrontement entre r\u00e9publicains et d\u00e9mocrates lorsque sera venu le moment, en avril 2011, d’\u00e9tendre le champ du d\u00e9ficit autoris\u00e9 pour le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral. Comme on voit, si la mati\u00e8re est \u00e9conomique (d\u00e9ficit), le fond de la querelle est bien politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abFormer Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSo here’s what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: I can’t wait for the blood bath in April. … When debt limit time comes, they’re going to look around and say, What in the hell do we do now? We’ve got guys who will not approve the debt limit extension unless we give ’em a piece of meat, real meat,’ meaning spending cuts. And boy, the blood bath will be extraordinary, he continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThink of Mr. Simpson’s blood lust as one more piece of evidence that our nation is in much worse shape, much closer to a political breakdown, than most people realize<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tKrugman, en bon lib\u00e9ral (progressiste), fait une attaque en r\u00e8gle contre le parti r\u00e9publicain, \u00e0 propos de cette affaire comme \u00e0 propos d’autres questions. A-t-il raison, a-t-il tort, quant aux responsabilit\u00e9s ? (Il a certainement des arguments qui ont leur poids.) Peu importe, finalement, puisque l’essentiel est bien la situation politique qu’il d\u00e9crit, et l\u00e0, incontestablement, il n’a pas tort Au bout de tout cela, tr\u00e8s vite, peut-\u00eatre d\u00e8s le printemps de 2011, une crise politique de rupture, effectivement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abAnd opposition for the sake of opposition isn’t limited to economic policy. Politics, they used to tell us, stops at the water’s edge but that was then.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThese days, national security experts are tearing their hair out over the decision of Senate Republicans to block a desperately needed new strategic arms treaty. And everyone knows that these Republicans oppose the treaty, not because of legitimate objections, but simply because it’s an Obama administration initiative; if sabotaging the president endangers the nation, so be it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHow does this end? Mr. Obama is still talking about bipartisan outreach, and maybe if he caves in sufficiently he can avoid a federal shutdown this spring. But any respite would be only temporary; again, the G.O.P. is just not interested in helping a Democrat govern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMy sense is that most Americans still don’t understand this reality. They still imagine that when push comes to shove, our politicians will come together to do what’s necessary. But that was another country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt’s hard to see how this situation is resolved without a major crisis of some kind. Mr. Simpson may or may not get the blood bath he craves this April, but there will be blood sooner or later. And we can only hope that the nation that emerges from that blood bath is still one we recognize.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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