Oh, the gnashing of the teeth, Oh, the flamboyant tactics. Oh, all the breaking news excitement...

[kpete]

The Kabuki Play On Capitol Hill Comes Right Before The Deal
By Danny Schechter
Director of Plunder The Crime Of Our Time

Oh, the gnashing of the teeth, Oh, the flamboyant tactics. Oh, all the breaking news excitement on cable news as the debt ceiling countdown saga went down to the wire with an intense political confrontation of a kind we haven’t seen before …


...........The audience is hyped. The wrestlers pretend to hate each other, and arouse the crowd with acts of physical aggression. The match looks fierce, but, as everyone knows, it is fixed and scripted. .........The musclemen throw each other around the ring, sometimes even gushing blood. The big bruisers denounce each other until it’s over to the count of 1-2-3; the bad guy always goes down.

The match ends, imagine that, just in time for a commercial break. Here it will end at the debt ceiling deadline. Each side will claim victory.

There is no ceiling on these political shenanigans. It’s just part of fast-paced game designed to keep the public on the sidelines and on the edge of uncertainly while the media keeps the politicians in the spotlight and excites the base in both parties.

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http://www.newsdissector.com/2011/07/30/the-debt-ceiling-drama-act-two-now-the-deal/

[Lifelong Protester]

1. I'm not even sure why I'm here because I had halfway decided

to turn off this whole 'play' for the weekend. SICK OF IT. I swear every time the TV is on and McChinless or Bonehead speak.

I wasn't even going to come here and read, but damn, I'm an addict, and needed a fix.

[monmouth]

3. I'm the same way. We need a 12-step group here..LOL...n/t

[canoeist52]

2. Love Danny Schechter- Worth a look at his site.

He knows his stuff.

[csziggy]

4. Meanwhile MSNBC is showing re-runs of crime shows n/t

[Lifelong Protester]

5. I could name a few Teahadists that would make those shows

(about prisons) worth watching if THEY were locked up...

[MisterP]

6. this is all to make sure that 1) the final product is as slashing and right-wing as possible, and 2)

to maximize the relief voters--low- and high-information alike--feel that "it's over with," "the Teabagger terrorists lost," and "we can pay our bills"
DU is one of the targets here, especially the "Perennial Pragmatists"