Jennifer A. Marshall: In politics, as in basketball, pride marks the road to destruction

The national debt can be significantly reduced by doing things that conservatives refuse to do:

1. Admit, when they are in office, that deficits matter.

2. Reduce spending on military by reducing our foreign interventions More..

And liberals fail to acknowledge:
1. Deficits matter when they are in power.
2. Stop sending the military to Afghanistan and Libya.
3. Wasteful defense spending is bipartisan. Cut spending, but don't send troops into battle without More..