re: #30 Lidane

This is either the most elaborate game of rope-a-dope ever or an elaborate suicide in slow motion.

Either Obama is letting the Republicans firmly expose themselves as the party willing to destroy this country to save their rich friends before he swoops in with the 14th Amendment, or we are well and truly fucked by both parties and are in deeper shit than any of us realized until now.

It’s getting to the point where I am wondering if Obama isn’t just curled up under his desk in the fetal position rocking back and forth and sucking his thumb. WTF is he doing? Why won’t he get out there, and start pounding the fucking podium FDR-style. Mock the GOP, shame them, call them traitors, monsters, and do it with charts and graphs.

The facts are so amazingly on the his side, I can’t understand why he won’t use them, loudly. Angrily. Summon some rage, mr. super-diplomat! Show a few fucking pie charts illustrating how unequally the wealth is distributed. Make a full-throated defense of progressive taxation. Explain why the super rich are paying less taxes proportionally than the poor.

For fuck’s sake, Obama, LEAD!