The exciting thing is how many in the Movement are wide awake and watching.   Obama promised transparency during his campaign.  Comedian Jon Stewart has a great bit on how that is going.  Republicans promised to "bring sunlight to the process" last fall in their much touted Pledge to America.  I have not seen much transparency or sunlight myself.  What I did see disgusted me.  We have a president who is willing to sell out the families of American soldiers, sailors and airmen fighting overseas.  All except twenty-five in Congress feel too important to give up their own pay if the government shuts down.  The one hundred billion promised in first year cuts in the Republican Pledge has become $38 billion, in what will largely be accounting tricks, if the deal even goes through. 

Well, the debate has shifted say the airheads. Tonight Obama will promise deep cuts in federal spending, just as he promised to cut the deficit in half his first term in office, while in reality almost doubling the deficit.  What is that old lawyer joke, you know they are lying if their lips are moving?

Republicans pledged last fall "to do away with the old politics," that "best ideas trump entrenched interests" and "don't just change faces, change the structure."   Americans overwhelmingly gave the Pledge an "F", but put ninety Republican freshmen in Congress.  We wait for the bell, as Round Two, whether to increase the debt ceiling, is about to begin.  Don't talk about winners yet because as far as I am concerned, John Boehner is a welterweight in a heavyweight fight.  And as long as we keep sending mediocre politicians to Washington they will elect mediocre politicians to positions of leadership.

Conservatives can and must do better. 

President Obama, our Commander in Chief, is willing to sell our troops - and their families - right down the river for the sake of political expediency.  He has put them in harm's way and is willing to let them go without pay so that he can further his political career.

He is a disgrace.