07.26.11
That’ll show ’em
The President goes on television to warn of approaching disaster, calls for people to make a difference, and the best thing that happens — a cloud of Internet bees descends on John Boehner’s webpage.
Now we won’t have the second economic calamity after all. Good swarm boys!
At this point, we just have to accept it as a fact of life: Obama doesn’t, and maybe can’t, do outrage — no matter how much the situation calls for it. The purpose of last night’s speech, if there was one, was to rally the nation against crazy Republicans. But there were no memorable lines, no forceful statements of the very stark reality. “Now, now, that’s not reasonable??? isn’t going to move multitudes …
I really don’t see how this ends without either default or the belated discovery by Treasury that the constitutional option is viable after all.
Sadly, a three minute cyberwar wasn’t quite enough.
We now return you to the regular programming of being slowly tortured to death from the inside.