The failure of Congress to achieve compromise supercommittee which will cut the federal deficit is certainly one of the most sincerely regretted the failure in living memory. And not that speaks volumes about the poisonous, cynical, hyperpartisan atmosphere in our nation's capital?
Sort out the impact of the panel of 12 members of the death cries of "Uncle" last Monday, it is clear that, for reasons of their own, neither Democrats nor Republicans ever really wanted a solution to what people are most commonly considered as a serious enough problem. At least one that involves significant compromises.
For the Obama administration, it has become increasingly clear that a strategy for the 2012 Presidential campaign is to run hard against do-nothing Republican Congress on Universal vilified. It will only work if the supercommittee failed. Mission accomplished.
Clearly, the stakes of the Republic is the way to win back the White House next November to persuade voters that a whole mess of Democrats, starting with President Obama and his team, often including the end of the debased leadership Congress Senator Nancy Pelosi who guided democratic majority in both houses of Congress until a wave of GOP took the House in 2010. For that to work, supercommittee must fail. Mission accomplished.
What a sorry state of affairs. The country was left with a set of required budget cuts that even will not be implemented until 2013-two months after the presidential election was decided. And already, a group of Congressional Republicans are merging to negate the defence cuts to on the grounds that they would harm national security. This is the Party of fiscal discipline? This is the party that has been affirmed in passing a balanced budget amendment?