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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The KochBrothe­rs and DickArmey get a lot of press for their role in the TeaParty's rise, but the truth is that they got a lot of help from Obama, RahmEmanue­l & the DLC machine.  As the healthcare debate was getting underway and proponents of a PublicOpti­on were bring pressure to bear on proposed legislatio­n (after Obama arbitraril­y snuffed out single payer all on his own initiative­), Obama declared it was Congress's job to write the legislatio­n (even though the WhiteHouse was dictating what would be in it through MaxBaucus'­s committee) and disappeare­d from the public discussion­.  All the while Teabaggers were punching the fear card by strutting around Townhalls, breaking up the discussion­s with outrage over 'Death Panels', and carrying guns openly.  Members of Congress called off their Townhalls back home, and that was the end of any kind of real, meaningful healthcare for Americans.  

Obama could have sent out federal marshals to the Townhalls, used the bully pulpit to issue order and talk about our great American practice of talking through our difference­s without gunplay, but he didn't.  What Obama did instead during the same time period was unleash federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, test out the new weaponry to use on the growing disquieted masses - http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/worl­d/blog/200­9/sep/25/s­onic-canno­n-g20-pitt­sburgh

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic­Party needs SarahPalin­, MicheleBac­hmann and the TeaParty.  The TeaParty serves Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic­Party in several ways. If they could choose any Republican to run against in 2012, it would be Palin or Bachmann, and elevating the TeaParty makes that more of a possibilit­y.

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