As I watch our so called government leaders push the spending peddle to the metal towards fiscal ruin, the possibilty for course correction seems to increasingly diminish. We have a Democrat controlled Senate that seems hellbent on preventing a budget before the 2012 election, much like the basketball team that holds the ball starting in the first quarter. At the same time the same Senate Democrats denounce as insane those who oppose giving the government a blank check in the form of an unconditional debt ceiling increase. Meanwhile, our Democrat controlled states spend as if they expect uncle sugar to pick up the tab. How do the rational deal with this? The word that comes to mind is irreconcilable. Mark Steyn:

Who will pay for Detroit, and California, New York and the rest? New Hampshire? Wyoming? Mitch Daniels can demand a "truce" from conservatives on social issues, and Democrats can demand a truce from Republicans on the welfare state, but the real fault-lines on which this nation will fracture are not half so clubbable. How many citizens of the remaining relatively solvent states are prepared to pick up the tab for Detroit's Allermuir chairs for the privilege of keeping 50 stars in the flag? The spendaholics are setting up conditions for serious secession movements.