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No doubt the deal is atrocious. What we have is a moderate conservative that likes to compromise dealing with anarcho-capitalist extremists working as hard as they can to continue our transition into corporate plutocracy. $1t in cuts over 10 years is what's being reported. No doubt these are to vital social programs and are accompanied by little to no tax increases. And all for the debt limit, which is a no-brainer.
The American left is hungry for representation in all of this, for someone who will return tax rates to normal, someone who will try to end the wars, for someone who will fight for successful social programs and who doesn't have the conversation on the terms of the corporate right. We want someone interested in balancing the budget, but who's going to do it right, by stimulating the economy, strengthening the dollar, and going after waste, not cutting blindly. I thought Elliot Spitzer might have been the guy, but he's clearly out now. Kucinich will never be taken seriously enough, Sanders is third party, Grayson went too far and the left turned on him, and Wiener... fucking moron. It remains to be seen whether Franken can work with the funny-man perception while continuing to grow support and respect by being a hard-line, no bullshit Democrat. Jerry Brown's too old. Van Jones might be able to pull it off, but not for maybe another decade. It's a shame Clinton can't run again. I'd run myself, but I don't have the intellectual prowess required for the job and I'd almost certainly end up choking John Boehner if for no other reason than to see if he turns red-orange.
I'm glad we're not going to default, but the cost is almost certainly going to be astronomical in concessions to the extreme right.
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