'Super Committee' fails. Just like it was supposed to.
The so-called Congressional 'Super Committee' was never supposed to succeed. It was a public relations vehicle designed to make people think that Congress was trying to accomplish something that it simply can not accomplish. by Parky Bill
(liberal)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Cast your glance a distance up the road. There's a fork. We'll be there soon. Then, we have to choose one direction or the other.
It is not a decision to be made lightly. One way leads to freedom. The other, to fascism.
The Latter Day Iconoclast is not shocked by the so-called Congressional "Super Committee's" failure to come up with a deal. It's all part of the plan. The committee did what it was designed to do, and that is to "pretend to do something so foolish people can be duped by the campaign ads which will surely follow."
The whole schmear was set up for failure from the beginning. The six Democrats chosen from the House and Senate said that everything was on the table, "but we will not agree to deep cuts in entitlement programs." The six Republicans said everything was on the table, "but we will not agree on increases in revenues or ending the Bush tax cuts."
Both sides performed exactly as expected. No compromise, no deal. Just a lot of yakkity-yak for the campaign ads. The GOP campaign ads will talk of President Obama's "failure to lead" since he did not march down to Capitol Hill and kneecap anyone on the steps of the Capitol. "He was more interested in campaigning than he was in reaching solutions," they will say. Of course, while campaigning, the President was crystal clear about what he wanted from the committee. But foolish people have short memories and that's who these campaign ads are directed at, aren't they? (And isn't the President supposed to be campaigning? He does want to be reelected, right? How ya gonna do that without campaigning?)
The Democratic ads will lambast Republicans for their unwillingness to compromise. "They kowtow to Grover Norquist," these ads will say. "Norquist has promised to provide a primary opponent for any Republican who votes to raise taxes." And these ads will be correct.
As we have seen time and time again in the year since we Americans sat on our lazy glutes and allowed the Tea Party to send their fellow know-nothings to Congress, Republicans are not interested in compromise. They have no concept of what the word means. In the rare case that one can even dimly repeat the word, it will be confused with the word "defeat."
Besides, "compromise" would mean giving that... that... OBAMA... something he wants, even if it's only 10 percent of what he wants, 10 percent is still something while 0 percent is nothing. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell so eloquently stated, the number one priority of the GOP is the defeat of Barack Obama.
"Thelma" Boehner and "Louise" McConnell have pointed the car towards the edge of the cliff and the hammer is DOWN! Crash the economy, blame Obama, hope the dimwits in the electorate have forgotten about the huge, steaming pile of elephant dung the President found on his desk when he took office. "He didn't clean the mess fast enough," the Republicans will say. "Let us back in, because who knows more about elephant dung than a Republican?"
In the meantime, the stock market drops. We may face another credit downgrade. People have taken to the streets to protest against the injustice of one percent of Americans controlling 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Newt Gingrich tells these "dirty, smelly hippies" -- including that nice little 84-year old dirty, smelly, hippie lady who got pepper-sprayed in Seattle -- to quit mooching, go home, get a job, but take a bath first. A bath is just the thing for getting that pepper spray and tear gas off the skin as we recall from our younger, more activist days. (A bath won't be much help for those ruptured spleens or bruises from rubber bullets or broken skulls where tear gas canisters careen off one's head.) And might Mr. Gingrich be so obliging as to tell us where these jobs are that he is ordering these smelly hippies to "get"? That's their problem, we suppose.
Everything is going according to plan. Nobody in an elected position wants to solve problems. That's not what they're in office to do. They're in office to stay in office. All they want is for the slop to continue flowing into the trough. As long as our political system remains based on money -- as in how much one needs to raise before one can run a credible campaign -- we will never elect leaders based on ideas. Rather, we will choose the ones who raise the most money. The politicians will continue to serve the people who fill the trough, not the 99 percent who are having enough trouble paying the rent and utility bills. This will continue to make people angry. Angry people will continue to take to the streets. The "authorities" will use batons, pepper spray, tear gas and truncheons until it's obvious they're just making the angry people angrier.
That's when they will turn to more stringent and aggressive force. Break bones. Break skulls. But this time with full intent.
That's when one of two things will happen and the future of America will hang in the balance.
Police will either realize that the protesters stand for them as well. Or they will follow orders. One path leads to freedom. The other to madness and fascism.
Which way will America go? The fork in the road is getting closer.
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Both sides performed exactly as expected. No compromise, no deal. Just a lot of yakkity-yak for the campaign ads. The GOP campaign ads will talk of President Obama's "failure to lead" since he did not march down to Capitol Hill and kneecap anyone on the steps of the Capitol. "He was more interested in campaigning than he was in reaching solutions," they will say. Of course, while campaigning, the President was crystal clear about what he wanted from the committee. But foolish people have short memories and that's who these campaign ads are directed at, aren't they? (And isn't the President supposed to be campaigning? He does want to be reelected, right? How ya gonna do that without campaigning?)
In the meantime, the stock market drops. We may face another credit downgrade. People have taken to the streets to protest against the injustice of one percent of Americans controlling 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Newt Gingrich tells these "dirty, smelly hippies" -- including that nice little 84-year old dirty, smelly, hippie lady who got pepper-sprayed in Seattle -- to quit mooching, go home, get a job, but take a bath first. A bath is just the thing for getting that pepper spray and tear gas off the skin as we recall from our younger, more activist days. (A bath won't be much help for those ruptured spleens or bruises from rubber bullets or broken skulls where tear gas canisters careen off one's head.) And might Mr. Gingrich be so obliging as to tell us where these jobs are that he is ordering these smelly hippies to "get"? That's their problem, we suppose.