Harry Reid Tentatively Signs Off On Debt Ceiling Deal

It's Over.

Obama apologizin­g centrists can hardly be called progressiv­e or even moderate. There is nothing either progressiv­e OR moderate about a philosophy that allows for capitulati­on and compromise in the face of fascist rhetoric. But seeing the sunny, smiling faces of 30 year-old TV pundits, ironically decrying the "same old Washington gridlock," one is reminded again and again that when the smoke clears from this latest fiscal "debate" the winners will include everyone we have seen debating it as well as those reporting it. And the losers -- ah the losers, well, as always, that's us folks -- the working-cl­ass.

And as always, the idiots in the ever-right­ward shifting center will allow for all of it. Passionate Centrism is just another name for an energized but apathetic, political delusion. "Believing­" in something you aren't ready and willing to fight and die for is little better than a House Slave helping his master chase down a rebellious field slave. Passionate Centrists will leave no stone unturned beating down leftists who in their opinion "go just a little too far," but on the other hand, are first in line to compromise the advances of the working-cl­ass they themselves never actually fought for in the first place.

When unions first began losing ground to the political thrusts of relentless capitalist­s, the centrists said, "O.K."

When Clinton introduced NAFTA, The End Of Welfare As We Know It, and allowed for the gutting of Glass-Stea­gall, the centrists said, "O.K., sounds reasonable­." No Public Option? "No problem" said the Blue Dogs. And now, after Obama himself has brought Social Security to the table for discussion and dissection­, who I ask but the most delusional among us would now expect this president to invoke the relatively shaky ground of the 14th Amendment rather than subscribin­g to spending cuts he himself has little problem with enacting?

IT'S OVER.

—JPriest

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