The Selling of America
July 30, 2011 @ 9:51 am
I keep wondering if the people who elected them, the Tea Party masses that voted these nutcases into office, are beginning to feel uncomfortable as their chosen champions of small government and big freedoms show their true colors. And believe me, those colors are not red, white, and blue, and their allegiance is not to America. They have sold their souls, and their country, for money, and their only loyalties lie with the overlords who wrote the checks that put them in office.
The Judases on the Extreme Right are determined to destroy the country for a few pieces of gold, but Obama carries his own share of the blame as well. Not because he didn’t compromise enough, but because he gave up too much, too early. Every skilled negotiator knows that the debate begins from extreme, even unreasonable opposite viewpoints and demands, with each party working towards an acceptable solution in the middle. All political decisions in Washington are ultimately acts of compromise, but the President erred in beginning negotiations from the center, while the extremists, perceiving the President’s willingness to compromise as a show of weakness (and rightfully so) dug in their heels from the very start.
Every continued compromise by the President and the Democrats does nothing to move the loonies towards a rational agreement; on the contrary, it empowers them even more. They have their marching orders, and it’s a winner take all mentality that has forced (unnecessarily, in this writer’s opinion) Obama to abandon almost every single promise he made to those who elected them. He is so busy trying to forge a deal at any cost that he has given up the very sense of determined morality that put him in office.