A day of debt cieling sellouts has made my brain hurt. I'm tired of thinking about it, but I can't stop thinking about it. Just the way I couldn't stop thinking about the Florida recount. Just the way I couldn't stop thinking about those long-assed lines at the polls in Cleveland in 2004. I didn't think I'd ever feel as bad for this country, for the future, for this planet as I did both times that George W. Bush slinked his way into the White House, but I do. 

 But now all I can say is Barack Obama has to watch the above clip of "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes' famous "Hard Times" speech (or promo as pro wrestlers call it) from Mid-Atlantic Wrestling circa 1985. He needs to watch this  over and over again, just hitting the Youtube play button on his iPhone screen until it finally starts to sink into that centrist head of his. This is how the president has to speak to the American people because they really are going through hard times.

Dusty's words are near perfect here, but I've gone ahead and reworked them a little to fit the current situation in case the President should decide to use them, just in case you know, he wants to get reelected: 

John Boehner, the Speaker of the House. I don't have to say a lot more about the way I feel about John Boehner and the Tea Party caucus--no respect, no honor. There is no honor among thieves in the first place. He put hard times on Barack Obama and his family. You don't know what hard times are daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work; they got four or five kids and can't pay their wages, can't buy their food. Hard times are when the auto workers are out of work and they tell them go home. Hard times are when a man has worked at a job 30 years, 30 years, and Bain and Company gut his 401K, kick him in the butt and say, "Hey a computer took your place daddy." That's hard times. That's hard times and John Boehner, you put hard times on this country by slashing spending, slapping a choke hold on the recovery and saddling us with a lost decade.

Bob Calhoun is the author of  the bestselling punk-wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, which is available through Amazon.com. You can follow him on Twitter @bob_calhoun.