Photo Courtesy of Politico.Com
A picture tells a thousand words... In this one, President Obama looks like he's ready to go into a championship match to win. Boehner looks like he wishes he could play, but written all over his face is the fact that he just got word from the mob; he's to take a fall this time....
So close to a $4 trillion agreement they were too... Till the mob called on Boehner, and said "don't do this deal..."
That is why Obama is going before the public today, to express that we continue working towards this $4 trillion goal. He is going to ask, that we, as the citizens of the US, attack the tea party, and create enough cover so that all moderated Republicans can say to the mob, " I know you don't want me to raise taxes on the top 1%,... but, look, I gotta stay elected if I'm to help you... and the only way I'm going to stay elected... is to raise taxes on the top 1%!..."
Obviously Boehner has a gun to his head. You can see it in his eyes.. He is sad, sad that he had a chance to make history, and his mob bosses, won't let him... In his eyes one can see, that they have his family in their gunsights... one slip and the trigger gets pulled...
Two days ago there we great hope... All those at the negotiating table saw with their own eyes, those figures that proved that with the cuts we're about to endure, and with just a little, little bit of revenue taken from the top 1% of the nation's wealthiest, this budget crises would right itself in a historical fashion.
The only thing holding this deal back, is the mob's insistence that no taxes be part of this plan...
A very foolish proposition, as has been proven in real life from 2002 to today...
Everyone knows it... I can see it in Boehner's eyes. He KNOWS that revenue enhancements are vital if we are to make this nation anything better than a chicken coop. We all know that once the wealthy didn't have to pay taxes, this nation went to hell in a hand basket... Conservatives can crow about taxes... BUT WE KNOW IT'S CRAP. NOT RAISING TAXES COSTS JOBS. From everyday life, we know that since the Bush tax cuts took effect, our incomes have spiraled downhill, our lives have spiraled downhill, our government has spiraled downhill, the United States of America has spiraled downhill..
You can't change facts... Darkness is on The Edge of Town.
And Boehner's eyes show it...