"Oh God, That I Were a Man, I Would Eat His Heart in the Marketplace."

When I am very angry, I take great solace in yelling these great words of Shakespeare. And tonight I am angry, so angry at the GOP Representatives for betraying all they promised in 2010. Though it makes little sense in our age to blame my gender for my inability to do anything today to stop the harm being done to my country, I will non-the-less borrow the sentiments.

It feels good to quote Shakespeare when one is angry and it provides the children with a cultured way to rail against the injustice in the world.

Do I have to say here, that I mean “Eat His Heart” in a figurative sense and wish, in no way, to provoke the “Unbalanced Tea Party Terrorist Vampires” who lay in wait of someone to cannibalize?

I literally wept on the phone like an imbecile while trying to convince the poor staffer in Lynn Jenkins office that a vote for the Debt Ceiling Bill was a betrayal of all Lynn promised to do and be during the Kansas Election of 2010. Of course it was of no use at all. I never thought we would feel the despair of the days on which Obamacare was passed in the House and Senate. And today I did feel the anger all over again and it was worse because we sent people to Washington to prevent exactly this and they were nothing but traitors.

You know, I called all my Representatives and Senators. I admit it here for all the world to see, I called many times. And, with one exception, none of the people who answered the phones could tell me, at any time during the day, how my Representatives were going to vote.

I was obnoxious. I would have hung up on me too. But two and a half years of Obama have used me ill and my sheer agony of being let down by my own party again was so extreme that, for a fleeting second, I actually thought of Ron Paul without the instantaneous urge to vomit. Gagging is my usual reaction to Ron Paul.

Well then what shall we do? I am profoundly convinced that Sarah Palin will run and that she will have a massive, massive following. We will fight for her with a terrible resolve formed by the betrayal we felt today.

I thank the Heritage Foundation for the concise and simple explanations of the actual effects of the Bill the GOP just rammed through tonight. The expert told me we lost a battle, but that the war would be fought during the Elections of 2012. He told me to, ”Keep My Powder Dry.”

I will not be eating anyone’s heart. But I will be there in the Marketplace of the voting booth. I do hope you will join me.

This is no melodrama. I feel we are watching a death. Without a miracle or some unprecedented, brilliant and profound broadly endorsed action this patient is going to die in a long slow painful death.

I have seen oblabla, I still can’t write his name, as pure un-American evil since I first day I became aware of him. He is a malevolent Marxist presence in our midst. I never thought he was anything but a looming disaster for this country. Reed and Pelosi have been enablers and multipliers as have many, many politicians from both sides of the aisle.

We are not fools are we? We do know that we can’t continue to have the overhead of 40% of the population being supported by the rest and having the majority of that support being provided by just a hand full, 10% or less. Can’t any reasonable person know that? The reality is that it is not 40% who are having their way paid, it is more like 70 or 80% isn’t it since 50% of the wage earners pay no tax at all.

But this is not about money. It is about principles. The principle earners were brought up on and most believe is that you work and work your problems and that getting out of a jam is your responsibility. A hand up is nice but earners also expect that help is only temporary. Socialism has created a class that can’t be kept. There are just too many of them. They neither sow or reap. They just are and they are no good to themselves or anyone else but they do expect someone to take care of them. Socialism truly is a crime because it creates people who become as helpless and dependent on their caretakers as caged animals.

I keep telling myself that we have flagged and rallied and that things will change. I know they will change but I wonder now if they will only get worse? Won’t the providers be forced to provide more and more until they have nothing left to give?

The very rich will escape to some private island or other place where their wealth will protect them. The rest of the providers will have to stay and suffer and be eaten alive.

If this bill failed to pass, the White House would have been forced to start making decisions as to who to pay and who not to pay. The trillions spent by Obama over and above revenue would come home to roost in his lap politically. Repub leadership got scared and blinked - viewing the government running out of cash on their watch with hissy-fit timidity. Unfortunately, the government probably will hit the higher debt ceiling right at election time, making them eminently vulnerable in their home districts, and deservedly so, for not having the intestinal fortitude to deal with being out of cash sooner rather than later.

The shock of Congress denying itself more debt would have been tempered by the fact that Congress would have signalled to the markets that it was serious about being able to honor it’s debts.

The passage of this bill means that the marketplace will impose the debt ceiling where Congress has not. Treasuries will see sales die out over the next two years. If they raise the interest rate the government pays on it’s bonds at all, that will signal to the market that it’s ok to expect and demand higher interest on U.S. Treasury bonds.

The downgrade may take a few weeks or months longer to happen, but it will happen. It will not only yield some interest rate pricing power to the market, but will also force Treasury bond buyers and holders to replace the function of Treasuries in their portfolios with some other mixed bag of currencies, commodities and other instruments. Once the replacement has been made in the portfolios of large investment funds - it is highly unlikely that portfolio managers would return to using Treasuries any time soon as the zero risk instrument that they do now.

This is already happened and happening.

The passage of this bill merely kicks the can down the road in an attempt to pass it off to the next President, a Republican, and Republican majorities in both Houses. Democrats plan to then forever blame the bad years they foresee on Republicans, ignorant of the fact that this time they have gone too far with deficit spending. Large deficit spending when debt is low relative to GDP is fine because the government can borrow more to tide them over until tax revenue rises to meet obligations. Enormous deficit spending when debt is enormous relative to GDP is to induce spectacular bankruptcy, as a downward spiral of depressed economic activity, higher tax rates, lower tax revenues and ever-increasing government borrowing and interest rates all converge to collapse the value of a nation’s debt instruments and currency.

Ground up, grassroots complete rearchitecture of Federal government is the only way to eventually regain American hegemony. The welfare state has never been successful in any empire because the arithmetic does not work. That model must be structurally removed from government. Sad to say that our Founding Fathers did not provide a governmental structure that would be protected from it’s own success, as there is no Constitutional limitation on government borrowing or deficit spending.

We should be consoled, however; there is a purpose to all this.

Why should folks be so quick to turn out someone with whom they have such a political affinity? Given what the Tea party Reps. had to work with, might you not say they were able to influence the ideas in the bill? Why not work WITH them to encourage them to stand up even more for their principles in the coming year? If they believe that they no longer have the support of those who voted for them, they might just figure why bother, and then go with the GOP Establishment on votes that we like even LESS than this one.

No, we didn't get all that we wanted in this bill, but no one ever gets everything they want in a bill of this size. But now the country is starting to talk about reducing government spending, so instead of bitching and moaning, maybe we should talk to our neighbors and friends in an optimistic way about the NEXT budget, and how we'll need MORE conservatives in Congress in order to get more Tea Party principles represented in it.

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