In my opinion, Democrats are falling into a deadly trap.

[earthside]

2. 'Fell'

Unfortunately, I think the Democrats are already mired in the trap.

And, unfortunately, I think the trap was sprung and closed when Pres. Obama agreed to extending all of the Bush tax cuts.

Sadly, I just don't think Pres. Obama is the leader to actually propose and fight for the kinds of things that would get us out of this trap: (1) propose real progressive income tax rates; (2) propose a dramatic restructuring of federal budget priorities and cut military-national security spending in half; (3) have the Treasury directly 'print' money bypassing the Federal Reserve; (4) break-up the mega-transnational banks and investment firms -- all to the point of using the money and power to stimulate demand and get us out of this recession.

So, Karl Rove and the other super PACs are going to choke us with this debt propaganda from now until November ... and as we just saw in the Wisconsin results yesterday, people can indeed be persuaded to vote against their own best interests when there are enough ads on TV, the internet and in direct mail.