The Fiscal Blarney Stone

It is rumored that the Blarney Stone in Ireland gives the one who kisses it magical powers of conversation.  If the Irish have transported even a small part the Blarney Stone to Washington, somehow it's given its politicians the gift to bullshit the entire nation.

What we have is not a fiscal cliff, nor a bump, curb, ant hill, or anything else.  It's a public pissing match between the radical wings of the left and the right in Congress, trying to put their version of fiscal and social utopia in place and trying to establish total power.  Whether it's taxes, entitlements, spending, or anything else, someone's going to be hurting no matter what resolution comes about.

Which is why I say do nothing.  Let the tax rates skyrocket, let the cuts to spending come home roost.  Let everyone share in the misery of everyone paying high taxes, watch the unemployment rate skyrocket, and then maybe, just maybe, the public who willingly votes people into office on looks and promises will dump these losers, hacks and know-nothings out in 2014 with quadruple the ferocity of 2010.

Simply do nothing - don't fix a damn thing.  For the first months, people will be fed up with gridlock in Washington.  Then the volume will get louder and louder until someone with guts says, "let's cut the crap and get things moving - or our political careers are toast."

And by all means, keep talking smack to one another, Congress and Mr. President, until someone lets the real agenda slip out of their mouths - total and absolute control over the entire nation.  The first person who utters on camera - even off the record - "we're doing this to grab power," and their party will be rendered into the ash heap of political irrelevancy.  It doesn't matter who does it - all it takes is one admission.

But don't call this a crisis.  It's a pure pissing match between the radical wings, all broadcast by a willing press.  Nothing more, nothing less.  And its only resolution will be to keep the status quo and kick the can down the road for another year - unless a brainstorm of lightning hits Washington and suddenly gives its politicians common sense.

Update: Jonathan Krugman of the New York Post comes up with the truth: Obama wants to raise the  the debt ceiling again so the government can spend more.  That's what happened the last time until Congress came to a "resolution."  Again, I say let everything melt down, go into a hellish talespin, and only then will someone come forward and say, "stop acting like pissy little drama queens and come to a solution - or else we vote you all out."