Peaceful outcome on this front appears weak, not even remotely foreseeable. The reason is that republican members of congress are not responding to the National Election of last fall but to the election of their own districts. A Strong Majority of the districts voted against barack obama in november even as the overall population voted for him. This i believe is the cruel arithmetic that divides american politics. While the big cities have given the majority of the mandate the district by district vote in the suburbs and rural areas given the republicans their mandate to vote against obama and the Health Care Act that will join him in the history books. I make one prediction tonight and even this is based on a hypothetical. If president obama agrees to any cut in the Affordable Care act, he will be rebuked as no president has before. The irony is that those on the right are asking him to end this political life by his own hand. I dont believe theyve figured out the end game of what the