Tuesday Afternoon Diversion: Aaron Sorkin Explains the Debt Ceiling

By Kevin Robinson in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 26, 2011 8:00PM

Brilliant even on illicit substances, Aaron Sorkin understood, all the way back in 2004, what the House Republican Tea Party Caucus is now learning today: that the debt ceiling is not only a very dangerous instrument of fiscal policy to play with, but that it's an incredibly powerful political football. Let's watch.