Tea Anyone?

Conservative House members believe that Obamacare will ultimately bankrupt our country, whose debt has soared even more dangerously under Obama's presidency, and that to make no attempt to stop it or dramatically modify it, right now, would be both financially and morally unconscionable.  Fiscal rectitude is at the ideological heart of American conservatism.  The Right might feud over social issues and foreign interventionism, but is eternally wedded on the social and economic ill-effects of over-spending government and punishing debt. Would the left behave any more 'reasonably' than the House Conservatives if a national ban on abortion or the progressive income tax were passed into law? Governments make mistakes, and they need to be fixed.  And akin to misbegotten war, frequently there are few, if any, effective half-measure retreats.  Obamacare is such a mistake.... and a super-majority of American's now agree.

And for those of you who argue that Obama was reelected and the people voted for this and it was confirmed by the Supreme Court I ask you: would you empower a drug addict to define and create policy for the availability of illegal narcotics?  And what would you prescribe for a cure for a nation of drug addicts voting on those same measures? The majority of Americans have now become  addicts... and pusher-man-government programs are the narcotics.

What's it going to take to break our intractable, inexorable addiction to more and yet even more government spending?  I don't have a realistic answer and it very well may be pointless and tactically ill-timed to try to attempt to derail the Oblivion Express right now... around this issue.  But one shouldn't disparage, demean and excoriate a perhaps slightly overzealous, fiscally prudent and principled minority of citizens for trying.... and I can say with apodictic certainty that the requisite trillions of budget cutting required to maintain our nation's financial viability will never happen via reasonable discussion and compromise.

Might a default on the nation's debt now, by choice, perhaps prove ultimately less damaging than one by necessity later?


M.D.T.