The consolation prize for not being invited to the debate was getting to answer this question and see my answer published in the Trib. I wasn’t going to put it online immediately but what the heck. It begins like this:
“Every day that I’m in Congress I’ll think of Andy and Robin. As school kids these big-hearted boys went with me on church mission trips to help repair the homes of people in need. As young men they put their lives on the line by serving in Iraq, a war which seems to have been fought more to keep Republicans in political power than for the nation’s security. Their welcome home gift is the privilege of paying off an $8.5 trillion dollar Federal debt.”
