{"id":70809,"date":"2013-10-08T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=70809"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:12:42","slug":"a-deeply-personal-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/aries-point\/a-deeply-personal-political-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A deeply personal political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re nauseated, confused and\/or outraged at the federal government shutdown in the United States, you’re not alone. It’s nauseating, confusing and outrageous. What is more outrageous but predictable enough is that the people who have created the crisis are blaming the people they’re inflicting that crisis on.<\/p>\n

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Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I would rather watch Cialis ads all day than have to see these gasbags belching out lies about the Democrats not coming to the negotiating table. They know that Obama, love him or hate him, got reelected; they know Democrats kept the Senate, which is an actual endorsement of the direction that things were headed at the time of the election. <\/p>\n

Those who try to pass for Republicans today know their plan for existence was voted down — and to this hour they are proceeding with gritty, antagonistic contempt for human beings. They must have to pound down a lot of Johnny Walker Black to fall asleep at night.<\/p>\n

This weekend, The New York Times<\/em> published a lengthy article about a federal budget crisis months in the planning<\/a>, with a guy named Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas basically designing and spearheading the whole thing. OK with help from Ed Meese, an old Reaganite creep, and many conservative organizations.<\/p>\n

And a lot of help from House Speaker John Boehner, a demon in human form, and the lean, hungry Eric Cantor, who is not wise, caring or melodic enough to have that last name. This is not just something that is happening — people are making it happen. It may not, however, be the people whose faces we see associated with it.<\/p>\n

One of the top comments to the NYT<\/em> piece expresses exactly what I was just thinking: “I came away from reading this article with the feeling that there’s something deeply subversive going on here. The phrase ‘grey men in grey suits’ comes to mind as I envision the likes of the Koch brothers pulling the strings on the likes of Sen. Cruz.”<\/p>\n

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What we are seeing is the result of string-pulling and manipulation, for a goal; that goal being chaos, and who will profit from that chaos. We don’t know how bad it can get, but if the United States stops making interest payments on its considerable debts, which would happen if it could not borrow money to pay the interest, that could trigger a world crisis.<\/p>\n

This must be really, really fun for the people who are pulling it off, who seem to relish the notion of The End. It’s not fun for the people who depend on federal services, such as research hospitals or daycare, or who need their immigration documents approved, or who depend on the federal government to live or do business; for employees of the government who have bills to pay, jobs to do and missions to fulfill; for people who will have to clean when the party is over. And it’s not saving ANY money at all — it’s only costing money. You can be sure someone is doing this for a reason. That reason, the motive, is the thing to ponder.<\/p>\n

The list of points to assail in this mess is endless, but to begin with, available and affordable health coverage is something the people of the United States are desperate for. The Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare) only goes part of the way, but it’s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

That the Republican Party forced a shutdown of the government specifically to block the ACA, important provisions of which took effect last week, is about as cynical as it gets, but then that’s a large territory.<\/p>\n

That the shutdown is denying the American people of services already paid for with their taxes is another true outrage. Most of us who work are working two to three days a week for the government; that’s what being in a 30% to 40% tax bracket means. We have paid a fortune in taxes and we will continue to do so — and the supposedly anti-tax ‘Pubs have made that their rallying cry. Well, they might want to deliver what we shelled out that money for.<\/p>\n

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Libra New Moon, from long ago — this past Friday. Click for larger chart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yet most insane of all is that this crisis is pushing toward the edge of another one — the debt ceiling. That’s the federal borrowing limit, which must be increased so that the United States can pay its old bills. That anyone says this is about a “balanced budget” is not just full of shit, they know it.<\/p>\n

Looked at one way, we’re being controlled by a bunch of loan sharks, who are preventing the country from making good on its debts, and taking a big risk in the process.<\/p>\n

The astrology associated with this is a mix of weird and discouraging, and yet comes with some potential breakthroughs. The first of the three biggest events on the immediate horizon is the Sun square Jupiter on Oct. 12. That’s a bursting point; the emotional quality of Jupiter in Cancer is going to get a push from something with a lot more authority — the Libra Sun. We may see all kinds of blustery antics between now and then, particularly the days before and of the aspect.<\/p>\n

Along a similar vein, the next Full Moon is a lunar eclipse. We are still living under the influence of a powerful Libra New Moon that occurred this past Friday, Oct. 4, and as that matures into a Full Moon, the colors will come out in the wash, the scene will become more contrasty and there will be more of a deadlock. Full Moons tend to break or release deadlocks. There will, at least, be some pressure to do that — and it may come with a considerable crisis. The Sun is getting late in Libra and this whole drama will be very, very old.<\/p>\n

Finally, Mercury stations retrograde on Oct. 21. This is the first of many Scorpio events that we’re about to experience. I have noticed a quality associated with Mercury stations that I’ve never seen documented anywhere else — the truth comes out. If the crisis persists for another two weeks, it’s going to get ugly — we are going to learn things we don’t want to know.<\/p>\n

Actually if you look at the scene as is, you will see plenty of that. There are enough votes in the House of Representatives to solve this — estimates are that 22 Republicans would support a clean resolution to continue funding the government, more than enough than is necessary (222 votes is a majority of the House). But John Boehner, the House speaker, is not allowing the bill onto the floor for an up or down vote. The Senate would pass it and the president would sign it.<\/p>\n

Forget about a democracy. This is a republic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re nauseated, confused and\/or outraged at the federal government shutdown in the United States, you’re not alone. It’s nauseating, confusing and outrageous. What is more outrageous but predictable enough is that the people who have created the crisis are blaming the people they’re inflicting that crisis on. I would rather watch Cialis ads all … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[4,1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}