From CNN:
"The failure of the super committee is not just a failure of 12 members of Congress, who I believe genuinely tried to cut a deal but were rebuffed by their party leaders. It is a failure of political leadership on both sides of the partisan aisle," said Brown University political scientist Wendy Schiller.
"Both parties chose their own electoral livelihoods over the good of the country, and it is outright shameful. ... This might be the most self-serving, mediocre and uncaring set of legislators in Congress in the last 50 years."
The lie that perpetuates itself is the one that no one calls out.
And NOBODY, including our disconnected President, is making the case that democrats DO put their own elections and values on the line in EVERY negotiation made over the last four years. The republicans, as we know, will not budge one inch on taxes and THAT ALONE is what jeopardizes this entire negotiation every time. THAT is what self-serving means, Ms. Schiller.
Paul Begala even referred to this hard-line stance as a "fetish."
Whatever you want to call it, it means one thing. Republicans are essentially traitors to the people who elected them. And Democrats are NOT at fault for this failure, short of their own failure at speaking out loud enough about who's the culprit.
I'm so fucking tired of the media feeling that, in the guise of being neutral, it has to be a pox on both families.
Call it what it is. The republicans have made this mess every time. There's no gray area. No misunderstanding, No range of thought. They want us to fail. THEY are the ones who are being purely political. They are treating our country like a chess board, and it's vicious, embarrassing, ugly and callous. - and NO ONE with the kind of twisted values these "anti-Americans" have should be holding elected office. Period.