America is not yet lost

Paul Krugman echoes a lot of my thoughts about the dysfunctional Congress.

We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.

It seems Sen. Shelby of Alabama:

has now placed a hold on all outstanding Obama administration nominations — about 70 high-level government positions — until his state gets a tanker contract and a counterterrorism center.

One wonders what it will take to get the Congress functioning, and I mean really working again. As Krugman notes, ” America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it.”