I share many of the beliefs of the Tea Party...especially when it comes to government finances.
The Tea Party is on the verge of killing itself for two reasons...its inability to compromise and its perception that they represent the majority of Americans.
We currently live in an era of split government. That means that in order to get anything that you want, you have to accept something that you don't want.
The current debt ceiling debate is about the stupidest thing you will ever see in politics.
You want to see the simplest explanation of what is happening right now?
Here it is...
A little over a hundred members of congress don't want to raise the debt ceiling, and are willing to suffer the consequences of that in hopes that they can get their way by forcing the government to cut spending in all ways possible. Every one of the other members of Congress wants to increase the debt ceiling and do nothing else. This group includes both Republicans and Democrats.
It's as simple as that.
As of right now, because of the bullheadedness of a relatively small minority in Congress that refuses compromise at all, instead of substantially moving the nation in a direction toward the goals you envision, they will get nothing.
At this point one of two things will happen:
There will be a single vote on a one page bill that will raise the debt ceiling that will include no other legislative initiatives to cut spending and reducing the deficit.
Or...
President Obama will increase the debt ceiling by executive order with the interpreted backing of the 14th amendment.
And the Tea Party will get nothing.
The Tea Party will be more villanize by the independents and the left than they already are.
Instead of being able to move the country closer to what their loud minority wants, they will get nothing. That's not how government works. Even if they had majorities in both houses of congress and had a president with their views, they still would need to compromise a bit...just look at Obama's first two years in office.
But instead, they would rather have nothing.
This is just stupid.
