IT LOOKS LIKE THE 14TH AMENDMENT or CHAOS
I hate to seem like a killjoy but I have to give credit to the Tea Partiers.
They have earned an A+ for consistency. When they say no compromise they
mean no compromise. There is no particularly good reason why the rest of us
who are not quite so fanatical to hope that reason and fair play will win the day.
If I am right - and I truly hope I am not - then America will surely be at a water
shed moment in its grand history.
Apparently this collision between the pragmatists of both parties versus the
absolutists has been brewing for decades. Now we are fast approaching the
time when the winds of a perfect economic and political storm will test our
metal in coping with probable powerful forces threatening to overwhelm not
only our country but likely most of the world as well.
They are right - the Tea party faithful - that they have gotten the attention
of everyone who hear their insistent drum beats. Who do not believe that we
have to own up to the debt problem?
At the same time they are wrong - The Tea party faithful - that tying the debt
problem to the raising the debt ceiling is absolutely the right thing to do for all
Americans.
Their failure to include provisions for raising revenue along with lowering expenses
is a transparently cynical act to win the next election resulting in their supreme goal
of reducing President Obama to one term.
Their failure to compromise is an ungenerous, mean spirited, insensitive, power
grab calculated to benefit the rich and teach the poor and those with less power to
bow before their masters.
I am uncertain as to whether God or a God is particularly interested in this collision
of differing positions. But I pray that President Obama somehow will keep steady
under enormous pressure summoning his strength and intelligence to win the day -
triumphing over the narrow one sided poverty of narrow absolutism in favor of what
is truly pragmatically best for the greater good of America and indeed the rest of the
world as well.
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