Early Blog

  I'm videoing a wedding Saturday so I'm writing this very brief posting on Friday evening. With the passage of the Boehner Bill, it is becoming increasingly likely that the Republicans will win the game of Washington Chicken. Raising the debt ceiling will apparently come about only with substantial service cuts and no revenue enhancement. This is an ideological trick not good fiscal policy. A responsible solution requires both adjustments to the tax code and cuts in discretionary spending and entitlements like Medicare and Social Security. Once again the little guys look like they are going to be sold out by the very people, Republicans and Democrats, they sent to Washington to represent them. Hamstrung by the Republican Big Lie Propaganda Machine, it seems unlikely that President Obama has the national prestige to reject an 11th hour package that dramatically cuts spending without equally dramatic reform of the tax code. God Save the United States of America because we are in the hands of leaders who shouldn't be running a flea circus let alone a great nation