I come in peace....and have two hopefully somewhat interesting observations/questions about the debate Tuesday night.
1. From what I heard, there was not any mention of the national debt/deficits/balancing budgets. That is kind of astonishing to me because that always felt like a hot topic in the past. My guess is that everyone involved realizes that balanced budges are a pipe dream these days so why even bother to address it, and to me, is a very bad sign about ever approaching any kind of fiscal responsibility in the near future. A possible government shutdown looms and not a peep of that either. What do all of you make of that omission?
2. The entire back and forth about what each presidential candidate will do if elected really ignored the big old elephant/donkey in the room. The President cannot (and maybe should not) be able to do too much without the support of Congress. I was stunned that neither candidate implored voters to vote for Senate and House candidates from their respective parties. Maybe both are planning to use Executive Orders more. The talk about working across the aisle with members of the other Party surely has gone away but now it feels like they have forgotten to even discuss getting a majority in the Senate and House to really get legislation moving. Was that omission by both on purpose or just did not think of it?
