Sen Tom Coburn & Our Monday Crash

"We don't have any grown-ups making any purchases for this country."

This is the reality of the debt situation, as verbally and visually displayed by Senator Tom Coburn (R - Oklahoma) in the US Senate on Saturday, July 30th. Yes, granted, it's a lengthy video but well worth watching because the devil -- because everything -- is in the details.

So please listen as he speaks about just some of the details and the duplication of government on every level to the point where one could logically ask: before you can cut government, do you even have the ability to identify and know all the myriad and convoluted arms and offices and programs of government??

Listen very, very closely to what he says -- please.



And yes, Senator Marco Rubio made a recent eloquent statement with regard to the debt ceiling debate, again with Senator John Kerry involved:



But as I wrote above, the devil is in the details. And it is in those details where the Demorats, predominantly -- and the Republicans as well -- fail.

One reason I so much enjoy and respect my district's congressman, Tom McClintock, is that not only isn't he afraid to discuss details in depth when addressing budgetary issues (and every issue is a budgetary issue at its core), but he is completely knowledgeable in those issues and well schooled in the political history of their origins and, further, how they can be resolved. Mr McClintock actually has answers and has had answers for many years -- but they fall on deaf ears.

The crash is coming, ladies and gentlemen, and we know it.

So far we're hearing nothing more than DC Mouth Music and it isn't cutting the mustard. It isn't cutting anything at all because -- in DC Speak -- not increasing a given program's budget from one year to the next is considered a "cut." Politicians have hijacked even the common sense and meaning of the American language.

Because the American public doesn't much care and certainly hasn't been paying attention. As long as they get their Free Cheese.

Because we've lost sight of the horizon, lost sight of perspective, logic, facts, common sense, rationality and proportion. We've lost sight of what made this country exceptional. "Exceptionalism" -- now -- is a Bad Word.

At this point, I'm almost of the opinion that, in order to extricate ourselves, we'll simply have to let it all fall and then attempt to rebuild from another foundation entirely.

But when we fall, everyone must understand, our neighbors will fall. Other countries and their economies will fall. The literal balance of world power will morph and change. In my opinion, Evil will flourish and grow stronger. The weak will become weaker and lack defense. It may even come to be that entire philosophies will shred and crumble.

It's past time for a Second American Revolution.

But frankly? There isn't one coming.

No one will be saved.

You are all, personally, on the chopping block.

Mind your heads -- in more ways than one.

BZ