Here's my problem with this "Deal"

We are not making "progress." There is nothing at all progressive about it.

I could accept this deal if it were a true compromise, where they get something and we get something. But it's not because we can only preserve while they destroy. It seems all we get are fewer cuts. They get fewer cuts. But they get cuts and they want cuts. Yet Dems control the White House and the Senate.

So here is the essential question ever progressive should ask, at least as I see it: how does this deal further support a progressive agenda?

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It deletes a progressive agenda from Congressional consideration.

Earlier - August 01, 2011

By former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold

"The debt ceiling deal should remove any doubt of the power corporate interests have over our government. That deal, hammered out by the president and Republican Congressional leaders, places the burden of reducing our long-term budget problems on average Americans, while the wealthiest individuals and corporations are given a free pass. Americans are willing to bear their share of the burden of addressing our nation’s long-term budget problems, but those sacrifices should be shared by all."

Russ Feingold is the founder of Progressives United. Previously, he served for 18 years as a U.S. senator from Wisconsin. Feingold served on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Budget committees.

what sort of compromise could you suggest.

Before I get dismissed as an Obamaphile, I am struggling with this too and have lots of negative tings to say about O, but I'm trying to understand both sides