More seasoned, more informed bloggers here are doing the heavy lifting in terms of analysis and journalistic coverage. I write to join the many of us who are not front-pagers and who do not write anywhere near daily, who nonetheless have watched this routine legislative issue being spun into an apocalyptic (potentially) crisis.
We've watched as the Teahadist minority wagged the Republican minority, then watched as the Republicans, who control one chamber of Congress, somehow bullied their way into getting the Democrats to cave in on issue after issue after issue.
This is still playing out, and maybe President Obama will pull one of his magic hands of cards from his sleeve; maybe he'll come up with something amazing, right out of left field, and make us all wish we'd waited before putting words into pixels here.
But I doubt it. This time, I sincerely doubt it.
I have always voted Democratic to avoid seating Republicans, the idiots who happily fanned the flames of their batsh!t-crazy Teahadist contingent, and bowed to their will on this debt-limit crisis.
I've done so in the past, and will probably continue to do so. (I'm not sure, but speaking pragmatically, that's what I have for an option, for now.)
But in doing do, I know that I am merely voting for a slower death for many the things I hold dear, rather than the obnoxious, all-out slash-and-burn assault the Repugs pursue against those interests in the name of more money for those who have plenty and more corporate influence over what is left of this "democracy."
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