It’s not a disconnect because there was no connection in the first place. Geithner is not a Liberal elitist. He is a shill, a con man, and a wholly owned mouthpiece/representative of the Oligarchy. Whatever political clothes he wears at any given time are mere costumes in the overall theatrical production of moving us toward Neofeudal Oligarchy. He’ll do and say whatever it takes to achieve that goal, including being deliberately obtuse. He knows damn well the protesters don’t care about confidence fairies and deficits, but it serves his interests to make believe that they do.

There will be no doubt of the righteousness of this fight after Greece defaults and causes a Lehman Level Event. There will be no doubt at all. There will however be hundreds of thousands if not millions in the streets along side us. Now, I’m off to Liberty Square once more. And if there are any doctors on this blog, we could really use some volunteers for the 8pm – 12 am and 12 am – 4 am shifts so anyone sick can get some medicine.

‘This shows how a credit crunch in Europe can sink even banks assumed to be healthy.”

I have a different take on this. Dexia failure = Credit Anstalt II. The more damning thing about this failure is that it exposes the European stress tests to be the sham we always said they were. It now has started the dangerous and snowballing thought in the minds of investors that, “if Dexia could pass those ‘tests’ and fail then how many of these other banks are actually worthless?” Lehman event number 2 is fast approaching.

One good thing about getting rid of the mandate is that it upsets the carefully laid con of making us pay them extortion money for decent health care. They get all the costs and none of the benefits. Excellent. Another good thing about the Supreme Court tossing it is that that you have removed it as an alternative. Remember, the individual mandate was conjured up by the Repugs as their counter to the Employer mandate that Clinton was trying to use to effect universal health care and which would have been legal and more effective. Without that, none of the other Repug schemes comes anywhere close to universal healthcare. Now, I definitely do not believe this was any kind of Obama eleventy dimensional strategy. This would just be the result of a lucky turn of events that happened to fall our way.

I honestly believe the reason Obama and his bots continue to do this is because of an inherently mistaken understanding of the entire political situation. In their heads, they see Progressives miffed and kicking rocks because they lost a few games so to speak. But that isn’t the problem. The problem is Progressives and the rest of the country is absolutely livid at their fecklessness and incompetence. The mood is anger and fury, not dejection. This is why they keep trying to give us this BS soldier talk about marching and fighting. People are angry precisely because these idiots never did either while expecting us to accept horrible result after horrible result.

Obama’s debt “deal” and coming cave on Medicare eligibility have already guaranteed a Romney presidency. Romney doesn’t really need to hammer so much as keep a steady, consistent drum beat of being against attacking the safety net. Regardless of his craven, unprincipled ways he’ll be the one who steadfastly stood for the safety net while the other two jokers didn’t. And given the choice between two craven, unprincipled, “say anything to get elected” politicians (Romney and Obama) who have virtually identical policies, the one who stands FOR Social Security wins every time.

“I may not be an expert on European economics, but I know a slow motion disaster when I see it.”

Come on Jon. You also saw Obama’s Health “reform”. What else can you call a bill that will make the middle class hate the Democrats forever while doing nothing to bring down costs or increase care? Or a party that walked into such a “deal” with eyes wide open?

Why should they protect him? He never protects them and in fact goes out of his way to throw them under the bus to protect himself. If anything they should allow him to fight for and sign what will likely be described as an awful bill by the time he’s done “negotiating” but vote against it in the end. At least they’d save their seats when he’s shown the door.

So like every other eleventy dimensional plot, it is overly complex and completely dependent upon Republicans playing along with Obama and allowing him to win? LOL. I cannot understand what it is about Democrats that makes them so averse to conflict and so enamored of these lamebrained schemes that, again, are always dependent upon Republicans going along with them. The Repugs know one thing: they want to win and you don’t win by playing the other guy’s game. All they have to do is nothing. Once Obama starts overtly spelling out how he plans to further screw his base and the Middle Class with permanent eligibility age hikes to pay for a temporary program, this big stinker of a bill will rot and Obama’s poll numbers will plummet. But like with every other Obama plan, we’ll be forced to suffer through each agonizing twist of its lame-osity as it steadily morphs into a right wing dream plan. When that likely conclusion is reached, Obama’s status as a one-termer will be confirmed and the damage done to the Democratic Party quite severe. The only question left at that point will be does he have the decency to announce he’s not seeking a second term?