As stated before, it is not the Barack Obamas who demoralize me. There will always be Jim Jones types who want to hijack the human spirit. All it takes is honest people to stand up to the con artists and the con artist withers in the daylight.
It is the Boehners and Cantors and Rubios and Browns and Ayottes who suck the pranhna and the qi and the zeal from my soul. Yeah, they are that bad. Then along comes Ted Cruz who does absolutely nothing sensational and things change overnight.
Yes, I like Ted Cruz but truth is he did nothing all that remarkable. What Senator Cruz did was stand up and speak the truth. In the golden age of cowardice, this sort of behavior is a novelty. As unremarkable as that might be, the ripple effect is not to be underestimated. All of a sudden we have Republicans not named Peter King working in unison.
Meanwhile, Fox News, Charles Krauthammer, A. B. Stoddard et al, talk about exit strategies, and futility and a defeated Congress. I would remind these sophists that Obama's Rasmussen approval ratings dropped five points since the shutdown started.
The sophists tell us that the debt limit is the better fight. Throw in the towel. Circle the wagons. Blather blather blather. Why does it have to be either/or? The anticlimactic shutdown is the perfect lead-in to the debt ceiling debate. Obama and Reid have brilliantly illustrated that a large segment of government spending is not essential. They have unwittingly pulled the curtain on waste, fraud and abuse. The longer the citizens view the details--and feel little or no effect--the easier it will be to make the case for cost-cutting in mid-October.
Symbolically, we have had a week of heavenly weather. We are told that dogs can detect cancer cells ahead of any other technology and America will soon be the world's leader in petroleum. They just don't make Armageddon like they used to.
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The biggest take away should be to make government less important in our lives.
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