On the debt deal:

Comment over at Belmont Club:
‘Tcobb’:
“..A fundamental tenet of wisdom is to never try to control that which you do not understand. Don’t put a chimpanzee in the reactor control room to play around with the levers no matter how much self-esteem the ape has, or how many credentials he has been given. That is something our current Political class seems incapable of grasping. But don’t hold too much against them–after all, they’re just chimpanzees.”