I have seen several diaries in the last few days marveling at the turn around of the press, how it is calling out the bullshit being slathered on the American people regarding the debt ceiling and what a failure to raise it would and wouldn't mean.
There is a very fine diary on the rec list right now marveling at John McCain's rant against his own party and how things might just be turning around. The bat shit insane have finally served as a clarion call to the merely deeply corrupt and now the merely deeply corrupt have woken up and are speaking truth and seeing the light.
Maybe not.
Maybe they are just doing what they do: Serving their corporate "sponsors", to be polite, (and why shouldn't we be). They haven't found God or their inner patriot or their inner ethics. They are just doing what they always have done except, for once, their interests coincide with the truth: Failure to pass the debt ceiling will be a disaster for everyone but mostly for business. All the crap has to be thoroughly debunked (balanced budget amendment) and the real cost of this must be explained and broken down and spoon fed until they get it. And by the wonderful man of the real Americans: John McCain.
You know John: Keating 7, the bribery and corruption of Jack Abramoff and all the looking away that he did and cover he provided, not to mention this fun fact (but let's):
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show. [See sidebar.]
So, when Senator McCain calls bullshit on bullshit and tells the truth it isn't because he has discovered or rediscovered his morality, it's because that is the direction he has been given.
When the papers start actually deconstructing and investigating the claims that are being made it isn't because of newly discovered or rediscovered journalistic integrity: It's because real business is scared spitless by what could happen to the US and they are using their bully pulpit for the same purpose they always do: to advance and secure their own interests.
They may think globally, and the wealth of this country maybe being reallocated and relocated but it hasn't happened yet. Now we're talking about their credit rating and their savings accounts (bonds and such). Now this is getting serious.
I love you all, especially the optimists because I so frequently lack that quality. But I don't think this is me being a pessimist. I'm just being a realist.
However, and my pessimism not withstanding, the most important thing is this: in order to destroy the monster they have created, the Tea Partiers a/k/a the Tea Baggers, they just might have to bring down the whole Republican Party.
That, my friends, is pretty good shit.