Written by Carl Hitchens   

Let's make a deal... tick... tick... tick... tick... tick... tick...

All O has to do is. . . Guess what?. . . raise the debt ceiling. He's the Prez and a constitutional lawyer/professor. Can't tell me he can't figure this out.
 Where's the guy who was going to walk with the people, until the people started to walk. He wants us to get on Congress! Puhleeze!

 I finally figured out what O's story is. He is, perhaps lethally for the country, stuck in a personal ideal of bipartisan consensus. He cut his grassroots, political organizing teeth on arbitrating between opposing sides of an issue (not actually taking a side). Apparently, his "Yes we can" motto was grounded in this notion. He wishes to stay above the fray, to arbitrate agreements between disputing sides, as if these guys really care about what is best for the country. This, and I hate to say it, simple-minded approach is juvenile. 

From day one, these right corporate toadies have disrespected him and made their opposition personal. They have made it abundantly clear—now even to the "real Americans," who thought their vote to keep entitlements away from the "non-worthy/non-contributors has backfired. They have found their entitled tucheses are on the line as well. Despite this, O has left everyone in a lurch, while asking those he refuses to walk with—so inveterate is his attachment to being arbitrator—to fight his fight.

 Somehow, in this circus of stupidity, the Prez has forgotten one fundamental truth. He ran and won as a Democrat. He may be the President of all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, but he is the DEMOCRATIC President. If he has no personal identification with Democratic ideals being the consummate model for fair and equal government for all Americans, regardless of stripe, why does he continue to wave those symbolic devices before our eyes and ears?

 It's not about procuring deals, President Obama; it's about turning ideals from dreams into reality.

Speaking of ideals, like all Americans, if the truth be told, I'm liberal on some issues, conservative on others. But in the common usage of today's political climate, these two labels have come to be known as government for the few (right) or government for the many (left). Therefore, I'm decidedly on the left. And so are the founding principles of this nation.

This is not simply a political fight; it is an ideological fight over "small" government catering to the few or "big" government catering to the many. The dichotomous small-big government standard definition designating small government as lean and penny-wise is only a device that appeals to the intellect. Seems reasonable and preferred to all of us that have to balance our own checkbooks. To both Democrats and Republicans this is common sense. But hidden under the common definition of small and big government is a sleight of hand insinuated into political rhetoric by affluent elitists to prop up their greater entitlement arguments. It is pure subterfuge.

It is simply amazing how Tea Party darlings Bachmann and Palin, along with the clique of freshman congressman, "believe" (can they really be this stupid, now that the debt ceiling" has been thoroughly explained) that raising the ceiling adds to the debt already accrued? Can they not see that not raising the debt ceiling is defaulting on what one owes creditors. It is comparable to someone telling Master Card that he or she will not honor paying any card balance that exceeds their personal budget limits. As Doctor Phil says, "How's that working for you?"

Everyone, regardless of political persuasion should be up in arms about the right wing coordinated effort to suppress the vote. Voter suppression is the known tactic of all despotic regimes. Any American willing to throw democracy under the train to have "small" government do "big" things for them, while sticking it to everyone else has a serious identity problem. This is America. The ideal here is that all Americans get a fair deal

Tick. . . tick. . . tick. . . tick. . . tick. . . tick. . . Raise the damn date ceiling, Mr. President. America, let’s show the T-Party how to really toss some tea overboard. And throw these bums out.

Carl Hitchens
http://www.drumtalk-hitch.com/Sitting_with_Warrior/Sitting_with_Warrior.html