Heck, the President has been saying so for the last three
weeks. Dutifully, his press secretary
Jay Carney has been repeating Barack Obama’s message at every press conference.
Inside the Capitol, legislators such as Ted Cruz, Mike
Lee, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner (there are a
lot more of these characters) have helped the White House to prolong the fiscal
and monetary crises swirling around the debt ceiling, the budget and the health
care disasters.
The accountability for this ongoing mess hangs over the
heads of both political parties.
As a result, the doom-and-gloom scenarios originating
from the Oval Office, the Capitol, and their minions has infuriated Americans
and unnerved the world’s central bankers.
Leaders with day-to-day responsibilities on the globe’s
financial front, such as Christine
Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have warned entrenched
U.S. politicians to resolve their disputes.
Today, should there be a compromise of sorts mere hours
away from the debt ceiling deadline, leaders ensconced on the banks of the
Potomac will all be claiming credit...
Don’t expect anything noble, definitive or long-lasting.
It will be the political equivalent of the Christmas
truce which took place on the front lines of World War One, when Western Allies
and German soldiers fighting against one another declared a short-lived truce
to celebrate this one day of peace.
During that agreed-upon lull in the vicious
trench fighting of WWI, weary soldiers of opposing forces walked onto a devastated
no-man’s land of barbed wire and hell.
Rifles down, facing each other suspiciously, yet fraternally,
they gathered together and sang Christmas Carols. The next day, they resumed the killing and
the maiming.
Is this the best that we can expect from the people that
we placed in the highest positions of power in America?
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