Quote Originally Posted by merl View Post
edit, Popped on over to Economist and what is on the top of the front page?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...13/10/shutdown
[B]That is UK press saying the message battle is lost.
Seeing as how The Economist is very left-wing, this isn't surprising.

(Hell, they once advocated getting rid of the House of Lords for a very dumb reason. They were arguing that people whose specialties were in, for example (since I can't remember specifics) the military shouldn't be making health care decisions. I wanted to yell at them, "So, rather than have a body with a diverse skillset, it's better to have a body whose only skill is politics?")