Recommended: Ultimate Spoiler Alert

David Brooks had another one of his insightful Op Ed pieces, Ultimate Spoiler Alert, in the April14 New York Times.Worth reading.

One has to hope that the "gang of six" in the Senate, the three Republicans and three Democrats who have been meeting privately for weeks to hammer out a realistic bipartisan approach to the debt problem can produce something that Congress will at least seriously consider. If not, then apparently no one on either side of the aisle is prepared to do what it takes to address the real problems, and we as a nation will be in a world of hurt.