The Reality of the Super Committee

As most of you know, our President asked the Congress to form a committee tasked with finding a path way out of our nation's economic malaise. You're probably also aware that this committee is made up of equal numbers of participants from both parties, Republican and Democrat.

Certainly some of us were sure that this grouping of polar opposites espousing views 180 degrees at odds with their peers, had the same chance at success as just about every other grouping of people expressing views not in accordance with reality. The hard reality is, this entire exercise was doomed from the outset. As we progress through the seemingly never ending election cycle, we must never lose sight of the fact that these people are engaged in nothing but bait and switch subterfuge. They want you to believe that all of their posing and posturing will somehow bare fruit. But if they're not actually interested in harvesting that fruit, what happens to it? It falls from the tree, into a rotten moldering pile fermenting into a noxious cocktail of malfeasance and profligate thievery.

So the next time you feel the urge to join in on the posturing, taking aim with moral arrows aimed at porn stars reading to kids in a classroom for instance..., I urge you to step back take a breath of fresh air, and refocus your anger and disgust upon those truly deserving of your rage. They want you to be obsessed with moralistic issues like abortion, drugs.... because it serves as the most effective tool in the arsenal of divide and conquer politics. We have been divided. We have been conquered.