[ScaniaBoy]

The most fair-minded comment on the recent showdown between the Congress and the President I have seen in any broad-sheet (at least any on this side of the Pond).

AEP is not a tea-partier, but he acknowledges that the conflict concerns much more than just the public debt; it is about the "the size and role of the US government" which are "matters of great political weight".

The historical perspective is illuminating. Think if our reporters and commentators had a memory span just slightly longer than that of a gnat.

NB! Explanation to those who don't know or don't remember AEPs previous writings, the term "my old friend Bill Clinton" is laced with sarcasm.

[American Constitutionalist]

Brandywine and Germantown were major setbacks for George Washington and the Continental Army and that Army almost dissolved in the Winter of 1777-1778.
Valley Forge was the testing ground for where mens's soul's were tested and the Continental Army returned from Valley Forge as a fair fighting force against the British.

[kenavi]

Excellent post. “Those who forget history...are doomed”, period.

[Texas Eagle]

Within another decade my old friend Bill Clinton had restored American economic ascendancy as well, with some help from Silicon Valley...

Sheeeeeyit. Not to mention a Republican House that prevented him from passing HillaryCare and forced him to cut the growth of government against his will among other things.P>A good read otherwise.

[Texas Eagle]

So unless the US Congress does something really stupid...

Ha haaaaa!!! What are the odds of that!

[Windflier]

"Those old enough to remember the 1929 crash on Wall Street..."

Ya might just remember it if you're over 90.

[JoeTheGeorgian]

—Just 12 years later the US accounted for half of all global economic output and was military master of the West, literally running Japan and Germany as administrative regions. —

Ironically, millions of tons of that “economic output” went to prop up the Soviet State in the face of the Nazi onslaught.