Negotiations never were going to resolve conflicting visions of the role and expansion of government. Only elections can resolve those competing visions.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Negotiations are not the answer
An outstanding observation by Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, writing about the imminent failure of the Super Committee:
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You can't negotiate when the opposition has no interest in negotiation. That's why the so-called "Super Committee" is little more than a shell game.
The problem is, there is no conflict of visions between Beltway Democrats and Beltway Republicans... There is only a conflict in visions between them and us and we were denied a seat at the table. Remember that in November...
I believe (and have for a while, even if it taints me as a doomsday nutbird) that today's worldwide economic failures are pointing us toward a world war. Not the World War models America won, but a gigantic fustercluck of nuclear proportions in all those strategic places we depend on for this, that, and the other, and which will reduce us to beggary when they fall.
I could be wrong, and I sincerely hope I am. At my stage of life, it would matter little to me, but I have children and grandchildren, and before too many more years, great-grandchildren. They deserve to be Americans, as I've always understood it.
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