i don't think, therefore i'm not

watching various cnn hawking teds describing people's motivations on the super-committee deadlock. david frum said that both parties win; now they can bash the other with this through the 2012 election cycle. he seemed to think that that made the whole thing perfectly sensible. jessica yellin said that obama 'didn't get his hands dirty,' because his poll numbers go down when he's grappling with congress and go up when he's out 'taking his case to the american people.' meanwhile, the committee issued a contentless statement of failure via twitter or whatever it may be; they don't even have the guts to face the cameras as a group, and you won't have to listen to what any of them say about what went wrong when they eventually do face the cameras: you can do their scripts word-for-word if you know their party affiliation. now, i could say that this is all a refutation of the existence of all these people; they are redundant. they do not speak as people: they speak as machines. and obviously they are not leaders in any sense; this thing shows if nothing else their groveling servility and their actual motivation for doing what they do: preservation of their contentless but ego-and wallet-gratifying political self-interest as that is measured this evening in polling. really, y'all, go away.