Banana Republic

The current financial crisis facing America has a lot of people wondering, just how dysfunctional is our government these days? Rarely do I see eye to eye, or even quote David Brooks, but akin to what Paul Krugman wrote last week, Brooks postulates in his NY Times editorial today, "they [Congress] have failed utterly and catastrophically to project any sense of authority, to give the world any reason to believe that this country is being governed." Krugman, sighting a friend, suggested last week that we have become nothing more than a "banana republic with nukes." He reiterated that again yesterday in his NY Times blog.

IS THIS AMERICA???

Really, I can't even believe I'm witnessing this?