Mr. President you have a problem. You are a spending addict.
While reading the accounts of how you stormed out of the debt limit meetings last night, I realized you have yet to accept your addiction. The question you should be asking yourself is not "How do I get conservatives in the house to go along with raising the debt ceiling?" it should be "How can we reduce spending and LOWER the debt ceiling?" Just one more fix is all you feel you are seeking. A temporary high to continue your personal feel-good-money-give-away to your political donors. You have already had your orgy of spending with your trillion dollar stimulus spending. You promised that THAT fix would make everything better. In your spending high you promised that this one massive infusion of our tax dollars would insure unemployment would top at 8% then recede. It has been over 9% ever since. You now want to tax the working people, but are so blinded by your addiction to see that people AREN'T working. And those who are, are struggling with lower wages and higher costs. You wouldn't see that from your private golf course, presidential plane and historic number of presidential vacation trips to post resorts. For you, the party of the presidency must continue. These gilded trappings seem to make you forget that you were vehemently against raising the debt ceiling in your partial term in the senate. You forget a lot about what you claimed to stand for as a candidate for President. As with every addict, the addiction now calls the shots. Unemployment, inflation and economic growth will all get better if you can just have more to spend. Well it won't Mr. President. And until you admit and learn to control your addiction, our nation's recovery will not happen. And THAT is what will end your presidency.
