By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
Huzzah! (as they said when the Founders were pups.) There is apparently some movement toward kicking the debt ceiling can down the road until right around Thanksgiving, when we can all sit together at a cautiously laden table, white-knuckled and anxious over pending doom and global depression. And in order to earn that tiny respite, it’s suggested that the Pubs are determined to ask for some small pittance like a hit on Social Security* or passage of the XL Pipeline.
Some liberals are suggesting that these weeks of theatrics might have been about gutting SSI all along, but I think it’s bigger than that, including but not limited to anything the left considers necessary to stabilize a middle class platform for American citizens (while the poor are uniformly thrown under the bus.) Yet, despite an all-time low approval rating — some polls indicate 5% or less — Congress continues its face-off, the Pubs confident that they know exactly what the American people want and aim to give it to them just as soon as the black guy can be put in his place.
Meanwhile, the small faction with a gun to America’s head rejoices in its funding intervention — what FOX News calls a “government slimdown” — attempting to discipline the nation with forced shutdown until it screams Uncle and returns to the halcyon days when government was local, taxes were nil and people were free to take care of themselves and determine their own destiny. In essence, they want a return to that mythical small town America that only exists in their imagination (and “Little House on the Prairie” re-runs) and they will not cease spreading their tough love come hell or high water. Both are anticipated to arrive soon.