I have written about this before,[1] but as the United States veers toward a possible default on its debts,
In a letter to his Republican colleagues on Friday night, Mr. Boehner said, “A deal was never reached, and was never really close.” He added: “In the end, we couldn’t connect. Not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country.”[2]
- [1]David Benfell, “A divorce for the United States,” DisUnitedStates, December 14, 2009, https://disunitedstates.org/?p=994↩
- [2]Jackie Calmes and Carl Hulse, “Debt Ceiling Talks Collapse as Boehner Walks Out,” New York Times, July 22, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/politics/23fiscal.html?_r=1↩