There will be a fiscal cliff deal, but not a gun-control deal
The pieces of a shattered nation lie in flowery clumps and on hand-lettered notes cluttered lovingly around makeshift memorials to innocent children.
No budget deal can bind us together or minimize that individual or collective anguish. But it can simultaneously make real and rise above the larded and lachrymose Washington language about dedication to our children’s fiscal future. If there’s no deal, all of those speeches are forever banished to the dustbin of deception.
Obama and Boehner know this. They will not fail. They cannot bear it. For a galvanizing and agonizing moment, these very different leaders are one, collaborating in a cauldron of collective grief and acting with the knowledge of numbingly familiar budget negotiations.
What is possible is what leaders do and what followers accept.
The nation will this week witness both.
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And they went home.
Schadenfreude on December 20, 2012 at 3:23 PM
I love how all the actors in this theater of the absurd pretend like the fiscal deal will accomplish ANYTHING AT ALL.
SirGawain on December 20, 2012 at 3:26 PM
WTF? That is some bad writing right there.
besser tot als rot on December 20, 2012 at 3:28 PM
hahahaha. It got worse!!!
besser tot als rot on December 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM
So poetic, so sincere, so…so…you know.
Bishop on December 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM
The whole excerpt given is bad. I was waiting for the tinkly music to start playing.
What? Really? They cannot bear it? Urf.
kim roy on December 20, 2012 at 3:31 PM
Ha, someone musta slipped some bad weed in Major’s pipe. That really is awful, isn’t it.
petefrt on December 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM
What did I just read?
JPeterman on December 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Major Garrett must of written that with the William Shatner Poetry app. Clearly it loses all it’s power when shatner isn’t saying it back to you on your iphone.
bannor on December 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Schadenfreude on December 20, 2012 at 3:23 PM
I guess Major Garrett under estimated Scary Reid as he obviously didn’t understand that the Senate Demonrats don’t have any intention of compromising or legislating any deal on the fiscal cliff. The link Schadenfrude provided exposes the Senate Demonrats for the miserable failures they are.
It looks like we are going over the cliff.
rsherwd65 on December 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Someone neds to tell Garret and Barky that those children in Connecticut DID NOT die so that there could be a political deal on taxes. Krauthammer called such thinking a sacrilege and that, IMO, is too mild an adjective. Those childrn had their lives taken from thm by a murderous and damaged lunatic. What will Barky do? Make a trip to Newtown and tell the aggrieved families and the numbed town,”Hey we got you guys a deal on the fiscal cliff!”There are no metaphors that even approach a response appropriate to that vision.As for Major Garret, his prose is maudlin and his purpose is as reprhensible as Barky’s. What comes out of the media each new day is more disgusting than the last.
xkaydet65 on December 20, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Schumer is a joke.
His will declare all gun owners “R/C terrorists”.
Schadenfreude on December 20, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Major,..nothing on spending cuts. That’s the compromise you want?
a capella on December 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I’m going to smoke a joint and then read this again. Maybe I’ll understand it then.
Mark1971 on December 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM
So – Major Garrett is trying his hand at poetic language? Cool, but he’s off his nut.
The Rogue Tomato on December 20, 2012 at 3:42 PM
No kidding. I think he just did Shakespeare and can’t get back out of character. Major, go back to your prosaic style, even if your predictions are sure to fall flat (as these will).
The Rogue Tomato on December 20, 2012 at 3:45 PM
If Major Garrett wanted to be taken seriously he’d change his name to Major Major Major Major.
CorporatePiggy on December 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Wonderful Obamaland.
Forward.
Schadenfreude on December 20, 2012 at 3:48 PM
I think he was subtly mocking his colleagues who have been producing their juvenile human interest pieces.
Dusty on December 20, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Well, the election is over now, after all. The truth can come out. Barky’s good for 4 years. FORWARD
NJ Red on December 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Where have you gone, Harry Reid,
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
AcidReflux on December 20, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Obviously a overly angst-ridden emo girl and Edward Bulwer-Lytton had a love child they called Major Garrett.
LincolntheHun on December 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM
The pieces of a shattered nation lie in the flower pap churned out by the main stream media.
RMOccidental on December 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM