We are one day away from the first debates between President Obama and whatever is left of Mitt Romney after some very very bad weeks. While the GOP hopes for a game change here – the odds are small – it is very unlikely that Obama is going to come out dressed as a pimp holding a 40 of malt liquor and say ‘where the white women at’ - nor is it likely that Mitt will get that zinger in he and the GOP have been hoping for since Obama was elected and lead all of America to say: “Yes the GOP were right! He is a Kenyan Muslim socialist Nazi! How did we ever believe otherwise? Let’s vote for Romney twice!”
It’s also not very likely that Romney will peel over the mask he’s been wearing revealing that he is in fact one of the aliens from the TV series V and swallow a live hamster. What is most likely is that Romney will say something illustrating just how out of touch he is with anything that does not concern Mitt Romney. The Professor made a bad joke some years ago that Steve Forbes (and does he show up on TV anymore?) was running for president simply to lower his taxes. In the case or Romney I not certain that this is not the case.
However as satisfying as watching the Mitt Machine crash and burn - Mitt does have one hope left. That Obama will screw the pooch in his pursuit of the grand bargain.
The grand bargain or more properly The Grand Bargain is talked about in hushed tones in the salons of DC, it is the holy grail of bi-partisan politics and is utterly horrible, something that will ensure that the lives of normal folks are benighted and full of want for the rest of their lives.
Simply stated The Grand Bargain will cut Social Security and Medicare benefits in order to pay for the 2 wars and the tax breaks the rich folks got under W, there will of course be some closing of loopholes (there is always talk of closing loopholes in Grand Bargain talk) but the loopholes most mention are things like the tax credit folks get for paying a mortgage which affects the middle class a lot more than the one percent.
The current outline of the Grand Bargain comes from the failed Bowles-Simpson commission set up by Obama in 2010. Reviewing the polices several left leaning blogs named it “the Cat Food commission” as the end result of the ideas were old folks eating cat food. The professor freely admits to some skin in the game – his 401 K has been ravaged by time, unemployment and bad stock markets so SS is going to be the major part of his life after 65 so things like cat food commission cut a little too close to the bone for the Professor’s comfort.
And therein lies Romney’s chance – the election isn’t over yet but word is filtering out that during the lame duck session of congress that will follow it – there will be a concerted effort to install The Grand Bargain to bipartisan huzzas of DC Salon class and the general despair of the rest of the electorate. And all Romney needs are enough folks reading this sort of gibberish in the papers and deciding to hell with it, we are going to get dicked over no matter who is in office and then just stay home drinking for him to win a few close swing states. Nothing to do with Romney himself. At the point only Obama can beat Obama.
The Professor just hopes he hasn’t seen the outlines of how Obama plans to do just that.
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