The Budget Smackdown Feels as Staged as WWE [View All]

[radhika]

I personally feel that all sides (Dems, Repugs and O) are milking and amping the staged drama, just to titillate their bases. And try to hold on to their marketable brand for fundraising purposes. Now we are focused on Women's Issues and Planned Parenthood. A desperate attempt to save something precious. Sort of like Little Nell on the railroad tracks. We saw this at year end. Then it was the Unemployed.

Character Arc: Orangina gets to look like he's a tough dude, man pants, like the Bag Lady challenged. Harry Reid, little dude, still doing his gosh darn best to flag that train away before it snuffs little Nell. And he's holdin' on, yes he's holdin on but he could sur' use some help. Tada! Charismaatically waiting in the wings, just as we're starting to give up hope, out comes Hop-a-Long Daddy-O, who will pretend he was the wise Solomon-like grownup that made peace in the schoolyard. Charisma Power.

This Story Arc isn't selling to me. GOP/Baggers will get most of what they want financially, with or without a shutdown. Obama rarely goes the mat for the working/middle classes. If there is a take away, it's done at the cost of something the working people or (gasp!) Progressives want. Nothing of $ub$tance is taken away from corporations, banks, 1%-ers or Wall Street. Maybe he's savin' it all up for the Pay-4-View event of November 2012!!

But...if Little Nell only loses a leg or arm on those tracks this time, I guess it's all worth it.