Tea Party Republicans met in caucus
agreeing to illustrate the unlimited importance of stories on a
global scale.
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| Wall Street 1927 |
I never really read that as a headline
during the exhausting arguing that has the nation's lawmakers in its
current apoplectic fit, but that is the meaning that I gained from
the news. It is extremely easy to look at their efforts as either
heroic or totally misguided as demonstrated by any sampling of the
words that have been devoted to the efforts of congress to find a way
to create a national budget that can gather enough votes to pass both
houses of congress. Consider a some of the real headlines from this
week's news:
Follow the links if you must, but the
text with these headlines will not do much more than reinforce
whatever view you began with. Small wonder that both side of the
budget battles have grown frustrated with reporters and tried to
remind them that this is not a game. Our problem, living outside of
the beltway, remains that we do not have a story that makes sense
other than the story of the reality soap opera. To truly understand
the events and what they might mean for the future of the country, we
need a story that provides us with understanding of both sides.
