The Art Of Governing.

       The sequester begins and a potential government shutdown looms. Could our times seem more dire? Can our great nation find it's way out of this morass? Is there a way for our two parties to come to some agreement? Is there hope for the future? Is there some sort of agreement that is attainable? These and other questions will be answered in this treatise?
       As I speak, our leaders are locked in talks over the differences they face. These talks are difficult for our leaders to come together and shake hands on a deal. They are difficult because our great leaders are not in the same towns or states as the other members of the leadership. This unusual situation seems to be complicated by the fact that none of them knows the phone numbers of the other leaders.
       Of course this problem will be erased as soon as they all get back to Washington. Unfortunately, once they do get back to Washington, they will face a completely different set of difficulties. These include the unwillingness to appear to be compromising the stances of the various positions. No leader is permitted to seem prepared to compromise.
       Never the less, all of our leaders are confident of a deal being struck to keep the government open. Well, all except for a select few leaders who believe our country would be better served by no government. But the leaders are prepared to come to agreement at any moment, any day, week, month, year or decade.
       The solution to the problem of the deadlock is tantalizingly simple. All it will take to satisfy our leaders and their bases is for the other side to accede to the demands of the other side. In other words if the Democrats would accept, in its entirety, the demands of the Republicans, or if the Republicans would completely agree to the demands of the Democrats, then all would be saved. Our great country might then enjoy the fruits of the labors of our great leaders. As it is, our great leaders stubbornly cling to their individual positions like life-jackets on a sinking ship. Do they know something we don't?