The Dow just went up two hundred points in anticipation of a Republican Tea Party cave on the debt ceiling...it seems highly likely that the added pressure from the financial sector (and the Koch brothers!) just may do the trick. If there was ever any doubt about who is truly in charge of America and of what our real national priorities are...let this moment put any such doubts to rest.
Meanwhile the Republican Tea Party monsters remain free to maintain the government shutdown in ways that will adversely and most seriously affect the poor and the middle classes.
I am reminded of the story of King Solomon...
"Then two women called upon Solomon, asking him to determine which of the two of them should be awarded a disputed infant. Both mothers claimed to have given birth to the baby. Since they couldn't decide, Solomon came up with what sounded like a logical idea. He suggested the baby be cut and split between the two women. When one of the women immediately understood that the beloved child would be killed, she no longer cared whether she got to raise him. All she wanted was that he be safe. The other potential mother didn't care: she wanted her piece. Solomon decided the real mother -- or at least the one who should be the real mother -- was the one who would rather give up her child than see it be destroyed."
The Tea Party Corporate Whore Republicans are willing to cut up and kill our government in order to "win" in pursuit of their ideologically driven power lusting agendas.
By refusing to "compromise" or to negotiate with terrorists...President Obama is doing the right thing......but every time the Tea Party Corporate Whore Republicans pull this kind of crap...and they get anything in exchange..and they get to politically survive.....it simply reinforces the validity of the tactic.
I hope that the Democrats will, for once and for all, stand up to the cruel malevolent terrorist bastards until the very consciousness of our nation is sufficiently focused to the point where 99% of the American people actually understand the perverse dynamic of the situation and will virtually universally condemn these extortionate morally criminal and malevolent tactics.
If Boehner went to the White House for diner and grabbed a sharp serrated steak knife which he then put to the President's throat...and demanded political concessions...he would be seen as a terrorist crazy bastard and would be likely shot dead within minutes.........he would certainly not be rewarded with changes in policy and then allowed to walk free. The current situation is, morally, not so different. The more we Americans come to actually UNDERSTAND the dynamic of what is going on....the less support there will be for the Tea Party Corporate Whore Republicans.
We have the bastards on the run...now is not the time to capitulate!!!