What can one lone voice of a reasoning Socialist ideologue do to ameliorate our present Economic Quandary.To raise the Debt Ceiling or not to raise the Debt Ceiling. (My apologies,the demands of Literary desperation must be served!)  One could almost sound like a feckless Hamlet or even like our leader President Obama, whose strategy when faced with an implacable enemy is to apologetically wave the flag of surrender, and compromise before any engagement takes place. We need a Franklin Roosevelt, even better an Elenore Roosevelt who isn't afraid to fight when it becomes obvious that that is what is called for! The Jacobins and their leader Senator DeMint are ready and able to prove themseves capable of destrutive acts of Political Nihilism in service to an unreflective fixation on Ideological Purity,as a first order question. Will the Republican Party leadership of  Mitch McConnell and John  Boehner be able to cobble togehter something like a 'compromise' in defense of The Republic? We can only watch and wait as this episode of The American Political Melodrama unfolds.
Almost Marx