Cut Off Nose, Spite Face

It is a very human desire to want to undermine your competition. Ruin their best-laid plans. Crush them like the creepy-crawly bugs you surely know they are.

We can see there are quite a few 'Congressmen' in Washington who are exhibiting this desire right now.

They have their supporters too, people who desperately want the party in power to fail, no matter the cost. These folks are smugly cheering as the politicians tug-o-war their way to the precipice.

But for the rest of us, this behavior makes less than no sense. Individuals may gleefully and frequently cut off their noses to 'spite their faces', but not governments. There is too much at stake and too many people that will be hurt.