It's perverse. It's sending the wrong signal. It's a combination of political opportunism and political naiveté.

We're sending a strong and clear signal

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

The signal that the Fed seemed to be sending yesterday is that they don't know where rates are going beyond March, hence the references to data-watching.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship

The gulf region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideological experimentation,