Do you get the feeling Obama and Democratic leaders have completely caved in?
I mean, is the right wing of the Republican Party that frightening? Why have the Dems chosen to play dead and let the tea party-hard-cases dismantle 70 years of the American social safety net? No wait, I understand. Obama’s a dangerous socialist, that’s right. Almost forgot.
So we’re going to allow these ideological crazies to balance the massive federal budget (that Bush created, let’s be honest here) on the backs of poor and middle-class people struggling just to get by, while the wealthiest individuals and corporations pay little or NO taxes.
Where’s the outrage?!
Our unions are DOA. The American worker has been cowed into surrendering benefits and pay so corporations can post historic profits. But no one seems to notice the erosion. GE, who paid no tax, supposedly has a larger tax department than the IRS!
So, you want to know what that sinking feeling is? It’s the Dems lying down without a fight. Not much is at stake here, by the way. Only the entire social fabric of the country.