This opinion piece by Mr. Marc Thiessen demonstrates, if there was ever any doubt, that the Debt Ceiling debate is about the internal conflict between The Wall Street Republicans and the Tea Party Jacobins. Mr. Thiessen presents Mr. Jim DeMint as the Establishment Republican willing and very able to challenge all the those who follow the political lead of Mitch McConnell, and vote for compromise: an absolutely verboten concept to the Tea Party. The speculation that Mr. DeMint will use his Senate Conservatives Fund to campaign against any who might be tempted by the political mirage of compromise,although inherent in the very notion and practice of politics is the centrality of idea compromise, this fact has escaped the notice of these political purists. Mr. Thiessen and his allies Mr. DeMint and The Tea Party should more aptly be called Robespierreists or Maoists rather than the Tea Party, for the state of permanent revolution,of insurgency as politically viable, has proved to be calamitous, without question. So what is left to us as readers to consider, of these strategic speculations, is that the Debt Ceiling will be passed and that the Wall Street Republicans will win, and that the purists will continue to practice their nihilistic, purest politics within a Party already deeply fractured, but undaunted in it's cultivation of the American perennial, political hysteria and it's permutations.
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