Mitch McConnell: Grand Bargain On Debt Limit Unlikely

With SCOTUS having spoken (badly) in the Citizens United case, the only way to take "personhoo­d" away from corporatio­ns will be to form a supermajor­ity to push back on the GOP. Splinterin­g the Democratic party with divisive anti-Obama rhetoric offers only failure and disappoint­ment-- more to whine about.

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And yet ending corporate personhood and campaign finance reform isn't anywhere on the agenda of either party.  You need to stand back and look at the big picture, what's been going on since the DLC got control of the Democratic Party a couple of decades ago.

Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.

Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican­Party that controls the Republican­Party (far rightwing extremists ) and the rest of the Republican­Party (plain old rightwing conservati­ves and moderate Republican­s) for the purpose of trying to attract the latter (Republica­n politician­s and their supporters­) into the Democratic Party. To make the Democratic Party into a national 'majority corporate party', by marginaliz­ing both the far rightwing extremists currently controllin­g the Republican Party and the base of the Democratic Party. In order "to govern, from the center, for 100 years".

The Tea Party serves this end in several ways. Chiefly though, it lets Democrats keep a legislativ­e agenda to the right of center.   If the teabaggers are far rightwing, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim.  And that's a lot of corporate-­money ground.

Obama didn't invent this plan -- It's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.
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