Interesting Surprise

"There are two clocks: one of them is counting down the time to our debt crisis; the other can wake us up to see our situation as it is, not as we want it to be, or as our ideologies say it should be. And the kind of country our children will live in -- growing or stagnant, on the rise or in decline -- depends on which clock goes off first."

"We can keep making easy choices and hoping that the crisis clock just keeps ticking. But sooner or later, if that's what we choose, there will be a time when we find that we have hardly any choices left at all."

Sometimes a politician is actually brave enough to speak truth even when it contradicts the prevailing attitude of his party. Surprisingly, the statements above were actually made by the Majority Leader of the House, Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD).

In keeping with the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished, your correspondent strongly suggests that Congressman Hoyer take up residence under any convenient table. His own party will soon be accusing him of gross disloyalty while assembling vast stockpiles of rotten fruit and vegetables to use as missiles.

Republicans, meanwhile, will watch gleefully as the Democrats take another step towards self destruction and a major loss in the mid-term elections this year. That Republicans will likely win is a given but they will only deserve the victory if they, too, are willing to speak truth to the voters.