Obama

It is nice to see the president smiling and golfing with the Republican Speaker of the House. How nice it is to witness the exchanges of pleasantries between key figures in government. As the speaker said, when the president asks, you go. But that only relates to a golfing date, real compromise is, well, left in the mire of political considerations.
Underlying all this civility is the harsh reality that our government is ethically bankrupt and morally inept. While this nation bleeds red ink and sacrifices its youth in the pursuit of a foreign policy that reflects the misjudgments of the previous administration, we are left with a gaggle of elected officials who are opportunists through and through who don't possess a scintilla of the qualities of statesmanship. It would seem all their time and effort are spent with their spin masters to concoct pithy slogans and garner air time. We live in a world where the real issues are jettisoned for political reason, and the common good is lost in the ideology designed to serve not the people but the political hacks who like junkies need cash to further their own greed.
The first two years of the Obama's administration were spent on the banal concept of compromise with a horde of right wingers who vowed to take him down. It would appear that its final two years will be wasted on appeasement to irrational ideologues whose positions are based on rhetoric and bombast. Chaos theory suggests that the most irrational and firm negotiator will gain the upper hand. This seems to be holding true.
When the speaker holds to the position that there will be no new taxes. He is, in effect, suggesting that the more this collective body digs its head in the sand the more likely the problem will disappear. The right would suggest that more debt is not what the American public wants. They refer to what the average American needs to do, but each and every one of us must pay our bills, less the dreaded penalty as high as 25% is added to that bill, -- all the fault of their industry bent legislation. They talk of the future invoking future generations, and underlying all this bombast is a nefarious attempt to rid this nation of any sane and meaningful attempt to insure the fundamental right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
They scream about the health care legislation as if this insurance ridden system we possess has any relevance to the nation's health. They balk at a woman's reproductive health care yet they would expand a drug company's right to introduce dangerous medicines for the cure of menstrual cramps though it might lead to blindness and death (have you really watched the warnings accompanied the ads for medication on TV?). They decried and stopped a public option as socialized medicine, but they now champion Medicare for those currently on it or going into it, yet they want to strip the country of this safety net and replace it with something that will profit the greedy insurance executives bloated with administrative fees. In short, they ignore their culpability in the mess we face, but worse wish to double down on the past failed attempts. The only real solution they have is to expand on the failed polices of allowing the rich to get richer and the poor to serve. They talk of God and country as if they are given their oracles from on high. Their high priests prance around in revolutionary costumes shouting slogans apropos to nothing but ignorance and bigotry. All the while, the supposed champion of the left, Mr. Obama, has jettisoned every campaign promise caving in to every unreasonable demand from the right while saddling up to Wall Street Profiteers in the hope of raising a billion dollars so he can campaign as our learned leader. This politician has the audacity to chastise us on the left as being unreasonable when we cry in anguish at his failed and weak attempts to move a positive agenda.
As the fringe right wing, resolute in their assault on the works of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and yes Johnson, hack away on any semblance of a government committed to equality and justice, Obama, ever the cool calm effete snake oil salesman mumbles on and on using rhetoric as a substitute for leadership. He has met the enemy and surrendered and left the left twisting in the wind.