Absurd drama of dysfunction

I love theater of the absurd but I prefer seeing it in a theater to in the halls of Congress. An article in the current New Yorker makes the case for abolishing a debt limit entirely. It's artificial, and most countries don't use it. Here we are, stressing out over something that doesn't have to matter much. Incredible. No, not really. Alas, not really. It's what I've come to expect from politicians of late.