It's a fact that people with disabilities are now "smack dab" at the center of our ugly national debate about debt limits, social services and budget cutting. President Obama issued today a stern warning that social security disability checks will not be going out if Congress fails to achieve a compromise on raising the national debt limit. It was, I think, not a coincidence that while the White House was sending that message the President was presiding at an award ceremony granting the Medal of Honor to a wounded Army Ranger. Is it fair to say that in symbolic terms there's a considerable amount of unbandageing going on? I think it's fair. The President can protect wounded warriors and Americans with disabilities by unlinking the debt ceiling debate from the larger ideological tug of war now going on though doing so would destroy the debate about who has who hostage. Is it fair to say that mercy demands severity? I think its fair.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 