The Deal That Dare Not Speak Its Name

By W. James Antle, III

• The Obama-Boehner pact would include "$3 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years to avert an unprecedented U.S. default," a "senior Democratic congressional aide" told Reuters.
• One would think both the president and the speaker would be hailing this as a major victory.
  
  Yet it remains the deal that dare not speak its name.
• There's an old, possibly apocryphal story about a Republican congressional aide who told a group of visiting Russian legislators that the U.S. has a two-party system divided between the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. "Periodically, the two parties get together and do something stupid and evil," the aide is supposed to have said. "That is called bipartisanship."

I think no real deal can be made.  It will be a PR show in order to convince the public that they are doing something when they are not.  The reason?  Confusion.    So much for the notion of divided government.

This isn't the nineties, nor the thirties.  A lot of the so called intelligentsia is fighting old wars.  That should work about as well as trench warfare worked against Hitler's blitzkrieg.