I keep seeing the word “backbone” with regard to politics, as in “What the Democrats need is to show a little backbone” or “if only the Demoocrats had a backbone, the teabaggers wouldn’t be able to get away with this shit.”
It’s like the old “we need to get tough on crime” argument, and it is also the argument of every tyrannical husband, father, and boss in the world, ever. A little bit more toughness and everything will fall into line.
Bullshit.
What we need is a way for the good guys to win out over the bad guys, and the problem is the bad guys are plenty tough. The teabaggers not only have backbone, they have skulls of solid rock and a total lack of shame or embarrassment. We will not be able to outbluff them or beat them in a “who will blink first” contest because they are too stupid to even realize the contest is going on. They don’t blink because they are snakes, and do not have eyelids.
No, what we need is to be smarter than they are, and that really should not be all that difficult. Obama needs to figure out a way to either get the government financed without the House’s approval, or to find some way to trick the House into co-operating.
Personally, I like the “trillion dollar coin” solution. The president has the power to mint a commemorative coin, like a Franklin Mint thing, of any denomination. Mint one trillion dollar coin (it doesn’t even need to be a real coin, it could be a symbolic thing) deposit it with the federal reserve, and voila, the money is there.
But I’m sure there are other creative options for doing an end run around the House of Representatives. Maybe some kind of funny sting operation, get a couple of dozen of them arrested for kinky porn on their computers (again, doesn’t even have to be real) and while they’re trying to crawl out from under that rock, the temporary leadership could restore order.
Any other suggestions?
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