And the Band Plays On.

Tomorrow, if you believe the mendacious talk that has been emanating from within the White House and the halls of the Capitol Building in the District of Columbia, the financial structure of the United States is about to go over a cliff. 

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