We are being led by warring clowns

Remember when the kids in the backseat would say, “are we there yet”?  Well, we’re there.  Both the President and House Speaker Boehner announced our arrival on television just the other night.  Its destination deadlock—toxic, dysfunctional deadlock.

It hasn’t made a dimes worth of difference whether it’s Obama or Bush in the White House, or Pelosi or Boehner as Speaker, or Reid or McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.  All of them have had their chance.  All of them have failed.  Sadly, while they would have us believe how different they are from one another, the hard fact of the matter is that they all have the same genetic defect.

What they all share is a preeminent preoccupation for the salvation of their own political hides.  It’s an obsession that makes starkly clear their willingness to sacrifice America’s economy, its unique position as the leader of the Free World, and our cherished freedoms on the altar of political expediency.

Last December the President’s Debt and Deficit Commission, co-chaired by Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, presented the President with a roadmap of urgently necessary national sacrifice to avert onrushing fiscal and economic Armageddon.

President Obama did nothing to move it forward.  The Republicans in the House and the Democrats in the Senate also ran for the tall grass.  When the President delivered his State of the Union Address and his budget to Congress in January he again ignored his Commission.

Ever since, as our economy has sputtered with millions of Americans out of work, the political class in Washington has spent their time attempting to out flank one another for the 2012 election.

Their obsequious behavior has taken the nation to the brink of default.  More threatening is the fact that, even if they agree to a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, it’s entirely possible that rating agencies like Moody will soon downgrade the credit worthiness of the United States.  Such an unprecedented action is likely to roil the world’s financial markets in ways that no one can predict. It’s called kick the country down the road again!

The question is whether the American people, angered to the core over this 20+ year descent of our Government into darkness and chaos, can figure out that simply trading one of these dysfunctional political parties for the other won’t work.

We need a new path forward, an Independent path forward.  And here it is:  Erskine Bowles for President and Alan Simpson for Vice President in 2012.

It’s the Independent combination of competent bipartisanship that we desperately need.  Are we smart enough to pull back from the abyss of dysfunctional same old, same old, or will we continue to be accomplices in our national destruction?

LeRoy Goldman

July 26, 2011

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