Day: October 10, 2013

Could There Be Good News?

Day 10 of the most stupid of political gimmicks……….

The Right has the shutdown all the fault of the Dems…..the Dems say it is all the cause of the extreme Right of the GOP that owns it……..it is damn silly!  But sports fans….most polls show that the majority of people think that the shutdown belongs to the Repubs……..probably not what the GOP wants to hear….but all they need to do is get that little weasel videographer that works for Breitbart to make one of his amateurish vids explaining how it is the Dems fault…..regardless what the polls say……some of our American brethren will NOT let facts get in the way of their stupidity……

For the last couple of days……there has been rumblings in the halls of “Foggy Bottom” that a solution is looking better and better………ya think?

Newser) – Signs of hope in DC: Both parties are increasingly pushing for an end to the government shutdown and a debt-ceiling increase, with President Obama set to meet with 18 top House Republicans today, the Hill reports. Those Republicans include Paul Ryan, who’s at the forefront of a short-term plan to reopen the government and raise the debt limit for several weeks, and then overhaul Medicare, Social Security, and the tax code, the New York Times reports. Mitch McConnell is quietly gauging support for a similar fix that would hinge on more modest policy moves, such as cutting ObamaCare’s medical device tax and giving federal agencies more freedom in implementing the sequestration cuts, Politico reports.

Conservatives are under considerable pressure to cut some kind of deal, the Hill notes—yesterday, a Gallup poll found a 28% approval rating for the GOP, a record low for a party. The Hill, the Times, and Politico note that the fight over ObamaCare itself now seems to be taking a back seat, despite opposition from Tea Partiers:

  • “There is a developing consensus that this is a lot bigger than an ObamaCare discussion,” says GOP Rep. Jack Kingston. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch puts it more bluntly: “I’d like to get rid of ObamaCare, no question about that, but I think that effort has failed … We’re going to have to take it on in other ways.”
  • Ryan and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor each published op-eds yesterday in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, respectively; the Post points out that while the pieces called on Obama to start negotiating, they don’t list ObamaCare as part of the equation.
  • “This is where we’ve been wanting to go all year long,” Ryan told Roll Call. “We’ve always known the debt limit is the way to get a budget agreement.” But he insisted that Republicans weren’t totally abandoning their ObamaCare efforts. “We’re bringing that to the table, too.”

Could there be a solution?  One that will save both sides face?

What will happen with our fair haired by, Cruz?  What will be his next major stand?

So tell me…..will there be good news or not?

I hope the end is near……I am so weary of this moronic drama!

Dysfunction Junction

I am so bored with this whole drama of the shutdown and the approaching debt ceiling thing……it is to the point where NO one knows what and who are the bad guys…….there are more excuses than hairs on my butt…..

There are many trying to find an explanation for what is happening to our government.  Most of those are pundits that want a ideological twist makes better copy.  They analyze and push some pretend problem and they hang on like a Pitt Bull with a leg bone..  few want to look at the real problem, the real dysfunction.

My thought is nothing like that of the MSM….to me it looks like tribalism, the tribal mentality.    Tribal mentality is when loyalties lie with family, clan and then nation.  I have updated the concept for 21st century US politics….whereas family/clan equates to party and/or group.  Think about Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria…..once the government becomes dysfunctional violence ensues.  Without a change of attitude or logic the US could be in for a violent decade in the near future……..

In the early days of our nation we Americans call ourselves New Yorkers or Pennsylvanians, etc….there was NO nation identity.  This slowly changed after the War and the implementation of the Constitution—–we started thinking of ourselves as Americans.  But today that process is slowly reverting back to the early days of our beginning.  We NO longer search for solutions to problems of the entire country….now we work for what is best for for ourselves personally not collectively.  The whole idea boils down…as only as I am okay, screw everybody else…….

The voter now puts themselves into camps controlled by propaganda….lies, misinformation and slogans and build a form of hatred for all others.

None of this abortion we called government will ever be productive again——that is not until the voters once again see themselves as part of a nation and not some tribe and start electing people that will work for the country first and foremost and stop supporting douche bags with selfish agendas…….To survive we must once again see ourselves as Americans.

The US is looking like some third world Banana Republic…….egotistical, arrogant leaders, a dysfunctional government and a population that is too cowardly to step up….in other words….the people need to become AMERICANS again!

Banana Republic