Democratic senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts said during a Foreign Relations Committee hearing that our $19-trillion national debt is "not actually right now" a threat to the country. After chairman Senator Bob Corker retrieved his jaw from the floor, he told Markey that was a "crackpot" idea. Washington Examiner: "A realistic discussion about it, and accepting expert opinion that this debt that we have is not actually right now a threat to our country, is I think a more realistic and honorable way of talking to the American people about it," Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday. That surprised committee chairman Bob Corker, who concluded the hearing by describing such views as "crackpot," and repeatedly said he expected the panel to demonstrate consensus about the need to limit the debt. Markey also insisted that Republicans drop their interest in changing entitlement...(Read Full Post)