This "agreement" is the new Sudetenland
Barack Obama, Capitulator-In-Chief, July 31, 2011:
"...The leaders of both parties in both chambers have reached an agreement that will reduce the deficit and avoid default."
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, September 30, 1938:
"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour.
I believe it is peace for our time...
Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
When you give in to hostage-takers, you get more hostage-taking.
When you give in to terrorists, you get more terrorism.
To return to the Sudetenland metaphor: give into the bat-shit crazy ideologues now, and after Sudetenland (this "agreement"), they will invade Poland, (Privatize SS, Medicare, and Medicaid?), and the next thing you know, we will find ourselves at the New Dunkirk, except that we don't have an island to escape to.
Literally, our democracy is at stake. Our president thinks that we can "negotiate' with these wakos. He will usher in the end of our America, and turn our country into a Dickens novel.
Obama is an incompetent wimp. My money, time, and vote are here for a Real Democrat who will primary him.