The Tea Party anti-deficit zealots (including Michele Bachmann) versus The Wall Street Journal, the National Association of Manufacturers, the national Chamber of Commerce, Standard & Poor's credit rating bureau, small business owners, the International Monetary Fund, and in a speech on the Senate floor today, John McCain, who said some of those who are relatively new to Congress are "making foolish demands."
And poor John Boehner caught in the middle, trying to whip his unruly freshman into line so they can pass his bill -- which of course will not pass the Senate. As Chuck Schumer said today:
"The Speaker's plan is on life support, and it's time for him to pull the plug. We need to move on to other plans that actually have a chance of passing."Even if the Speaker is able to beg, borrow and steal his way to 217 Republican votes, the bill remains a nonstarter in the Senate and the president will never sign it. The Speaker is wasting precious time. Every day he spends twisting arms in his caucus we careen closer to catastrophic default."
Yes, I love it when the other side forms a circular firing squad.
If only the results were not so disastrous for our nation and our economy. There is already some indication that, even if they manage to avoid default, our infighting has so shaken the global confidence in the U. S. that our credit rating may very well be down-graded anyway.
Something is terribly wrong with our political system when we send such idiots to make our laws, and when we allow obscene amount of money to influence -- no, to actually control -- our governmental processes. And the current pro-business Supreme Court is only making it worse.
I don't know if it is correctable. We may just have to have a revolution and start over.
And I don't say that lightly.
Ralph
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