Obama tells Boehner and McConnell: "You have an hour to decide."

[kpete]

A White House Reverie at 5 Minutes to Midnight
(and YES, this is :sarcasm: )

By Jim Sleeper - July 23, 2011, 9:46AM
Obama tells Boehner and McConnell:

"Your party set out three decades ago to deepen our deficit problems , and brought us the economic near-meltdown of 2008. And now that you've forced the crisis into the political arena openly again and have Americans' undivided attention, you will support the balanced cuts-and-revenue approach that most of them, and most of the people they've elected, actually want.

"If you don't do this, I will announce the default of the United States as the sole consequence of an attempted Republican coup-d'etat, led now by yourselves, against fairness in sacrifice as well as in social assistance. Most Americans have endorsed and expected that balance since 1932, even when they've elected Republicans presidents and members of Congress, who seldom campaigned openly against those foundations.

"I will then invite either of you to the podium to explain to the American people, whom you invoke so often, why your vision of a nation whose jobs and markets can be sustained only if your wealthy patrons are freed from all burden sharing required you to drive the United States and the world economy over a cliff.

"You have an hour to decide."

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[tularetom]

1. Too bad it's sarcasm

Because that is exactly what needs to be done.

[KittyWampus]

4. Hello? That's exactly what Obama has just done.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Oh yes, do that

Plus, it's all true.

[leveymg]

3. This reminds me of some of the dialogue in "Seven Days in May". Plain talk, hard realities. Happy

ending.

Unfortunately, the outcome may be more like "Fail-Safe", which originally had the subtitle "The Sacrifice of Abraham, 1958"