Is Donald Trump reconsidering a run for the Presidency?

More importantly, does anyone with the exception of me and my media colleagues care?

You will remember that for a few weeks Donald Trump was the talk of the campaign and running first in many polls as the lead Republican candidate. But when faced with losing his job as host of The Apprentice, he announced in May that "I am not ready to leave the private sector."

So it has been a few weeks since anyone has talked about Trump and he is getting a little antsy as he is afflicted with MADD - Media Attention Deficit Disorder, meaning that when he doesn't get media attention he does something to feed his addiction.

So on CNBC, Donald said "If the economy continues to be bad"..."if the Republicans pick the wrong candidate, I would give it very, very serious thought."

He even added, "There are so many people wanting me to do it."

No one more than Trump himself. But he won't. For the same reason he said he wouldn't in May. He has the Apprentice, a good life and a million skeletons in his closet. This charade is for saps like me to give him attention and I dutifully feed his ego.

Well that stops tonight. I solemnly pledge not to talk about Trump running for President, unless he actually runs for President. I hope others in the media join me in my pledge.

Oh, and by the way, Trump may have found a way to Washington without running for office. Trump Hotel Collection, the luxury lodging brand that bears the name of the New York real estate magnate, has proposed transforming the historic Old Post Office Pavilion in the nation’s capital into a nearly 300-room luxury hotel complete with conference meeting space a spa and museum.

This works out better for Donald, who like to put his names on things. Changing the White House to Trump House would have been tacky.

The Tea Party Freshman in Congress who forced the hand of the President and Congress to negotiate and pass a debt reduction bill have been taking a beating in the past 48 hours.

Vice President Joe Biden's reported use of the word "terrorist." Oyjrt Democrats used "arsonists," "saboteurs," and "extortionists" – to vent anger at a debt-ceiling deal that, largely because of the tea party, included no new taxes while mandating massive spending cuts.

The media has been just as insulting, but a lot more clever. "Consider what the towel-snapping Tea Party crazies have already accomplished," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. "They've changed the entire discussion. They've neutralized the White House. They've whipped their leadership into submission. They've taken taxes and revenues off the table. They've withered the stock and bond markets. They've made journalists speak to them as though they're John Calhoun and Alexander Hamilton."

Back to the Democrats in Congress - Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) of Missouri called the deal a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich," onto which House minority leader Nancy Pelosi piled on, "with a side of Satan fries."

Democrats' anger is understandable: The massive government spending cuts and lack of new revenue sources in the political deal that raises the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion so the country can meet its fiduciary obligations hints at a shift of power and priorities away from the Democrats philosophy of "good" government growth toward the tea party's goal of scaling back Washington spending and influence.

Shrugging off unfavorable polls and harsh criticism from Biden and other Democrats, the tea party faithful take stock of their influence on Capitol Hill's debt deal and look ahead to the next battle.

But make no mistake, the Tea Party won this battle. This was a foundational shift in the way the US Government does business. The cuts ended a trend of unlimited spending and started a discussion to reverse that trend.

But I can't for the life of me understand the extent of the villification of the Tea Party. The 87 new Tea Party Congressman campaigned on one issue - the debt. When they were sworn in they said they would not arbitrarily raise the debt ceiling and they did exactly what they said they were going to do.

You have to respect that they kept their promise and stuck to their principle, even if you don't like the principle or the outcome.

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For some, that foundational shift has deeper, even global, roots.

"What the Left hasn’t grasped – and what Obama has – is that for the foreseeable future no political candidate or party will be able to increase public spending and win reelection," writes Toby Young, a columnist for the conservative British newspaper the Daily Telegraph. "Socialist welfare programmes have become politically toxic. A sea change has taken place within the West’s most developed countries and [the] debt deal is a reflection of that."

But potentially most worrisome for Democrats is evidence that Americans are increasingly concerned about the debt and back efforts to cut federal spending to bring the deficit under control.

Polls have been far from definitive on how Americans feel. A July 15 CBS Poll showed 69 percent of Americans opposed to raising the debt ceiling. But a more recent Pew poll showed that 60 percent of Americans favor a mix of spending cuts and tax increases to bring down the debt, with another 19 percent favoring solely cutting programs and another 8 percent favoring solely raising taxes without spending cuts.

"I think Democrats do have a big problem in that the mood of the country is now so positive about shrinking deficits and cutting federal spending that makes it extraordinarily hard for the standard Democratic message to prevail right now," says Charles Franklin, a polling expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.

But that's not to say the tea party didn't take hits in the polls by using its leverage in the House to push the country to the brink of defaulting on some of its obligations, which could have had dire economic consequences.

Another Pew survey found that 37 percent of respondents now have a less favorable opinion of the 60 tea party-backed members of Congress after the debt-ceiling standoff, the exact same percentage who said the same about Obama. At the same time, Pew says, 42 percent of Americans say they now view Republicans less favorably.

"Among Democrats, many voters already have negative feelings and that may grow among moderate Republicans and unaffiliated voters," pollster Scott Rasmussen told the Guardian newspaper in England.

Polling sentiments, however, don't stand in the way of Mr. Gray's tea party convictions.

"We're not here to overthrow the government, we want to work within the system," he says. "But if the system is beyond repair, who knows what's next?"

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If you are worried about the debt reduction plan signed by the President this week, don't be. Although no one, including the President seems to like the deal. It really doesn't do much. $900 Billion over a decade is a drop in the federal spending bucket. And, of course, before the 2012 election there will only be $20 Billion in cuts or less than 2% cut in spending. You won't even feel it.

No, Congress did what it always does. It passed the buck. But this time a new committee and a new euphemism are involved. THE SUPER COMMITTEE. They won't be wearing capes and costumes, but they will be expected to cut another $1.5 Trillion over the next decade.

Forget about Ways and Means, Armed Services or the coveted Intelligence Committee in the Senate. The “super committee” is what everyone is predicting to be the most powerful group of elected officials in the world.

There will be six Democrats and Six Republicans, both Senators and House Members and they will decide what stays and goes. Lobbyists from every industry will descend on them as soon as the Super Dozen are named.

Democrats claim that the group can't touch entitlements like Medicare and Social Security. Republicans claim they can't raise taxes. Both sides lied to get the votes to pass the bill and form the committee, who can both raise taxes and cut social security and Medicare.

Personally I think this is just a way to once again put off tough choices. Call me Super Skeptical.