Republicans are the problem!

It has become more and more clear that conservative Republicans have created the current gridlock, that they are more beholden to right wing party politics than the best interests of the country. When the leader of the House GOP states that the single most objective of the GOP is to discredit President Obama, more important than the security of the country, the economic growth of the country, rebuilding the infrastructure of the country, then the country is in serious trouble. When the GOP House refuse to work with the other party to craft legislation that will benefit the country, but instead push social agendas that have no chance of being passed by the Senate, when any legislation that might be favorable to the president is filibustered despite the merits of the legislation, when legislators are more concerned with putting their party politics above the welfare of the country, there is a serious problem. What has the GOP accomplished in the past 4 years other than obstructing the growth of this country? No jobs bill, no transportation bill, only a budget plan that the Catholic church has branded as immoral.

As Thomas Mann, a nonpolitical historian of the Congress for the past forty years has stated:

"We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges."
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The Republicans criticize the Health Reform Act, but have not provided a single positive step to address the problem of health care in the US. The Republicans criticize the state of employment, but have failed to pass a constructive bill to address this problem. The Republicans criticize the deficit but oppose plans to address unfairness of the tax codes. Republicans criticize the continued slide of the middle class, but refuse to address the policies that allow the one per cent to continue this erosion. The Republicans can not even pass a transportation bill that their leadership is pushing.

Until the Republicans return to the mainstream of America, America is in big trouble.

What did the Dems do in the first two years when they controlled the White House, Senate, and the House? Oh ya, a failed stimulus and a HC bill that most don't want.

Keep up the good work Dems!

It really comes down to this, Democrats believe goverment solves problems, while Republicans think goverment causes problems.
So a goverment that can't get anything passed isn't seen as bad to them/

But the Republicans aren't the only ones holding up goverment, Harry Reid & Obama both want to run against an obsturctionist Congress, so they use different strategies to make it look like the House hasn't done anything. For example, the House has passed many bills this year, including a budget, in regular times, the Senate would then vote on these bills. Instead they are tabled, Reid doesn't want to have Dem Senators going on record with a yes or no vote before the election.

Something the Dog Said wrote: It has become more and more clear that conservative Republicans have created the current gridlock,

When the government is heading in the wrong direction, gridlock is a good thing. Republicans creating gridlock are not the problem, they are the solution.

Something the Dog Said wrote:
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When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges."

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Until the Republicans return to the mainstream of America, America is in big trouble.

The GOP is dealing very constructively with the countries challenges... we are going to get rid of the slime that has invaded the White House. Obama is the one that's in big trouble.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

Something the Dog Said wrote:
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When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges."

[snip]

Until the Republicans return to the mainstream of America, America is in big trouble.

The GOP is dealing very constructively with the countries challenges... we are going to get rid of the slime that has invaded the White House. Obama is the one that's in big trouble.

I didn't get to read that far down into the message to get to the mainstream comments. I was laughing too hard at the first line.

Yep, there's someone stuck in a whirlpool that's gonna suck the country down under, but it ain't the republicans.

Demonization of the evil Republicans is all the left has, because the Democrats have been dismal failures and have no successes to campaign on. None. That's why they've run with the Bin Laden thing, it's the closest this administration has come to doing anything right. Until November that's the strategy of the Obama administration and his media - Talk about the evil GOP, not about the economy, unemployment, or the massive debt we have.

Good Post STDS! These guys have no idea who they're supporting. Either that or this board is made up of 1 %'s.

Have the Republicans really gone off the rail? Are they a tiny minority of where the country wants to go? Doesn't look that way to me, in 2010, they made historic gains in the House & Senate. Presidency? There have been more GOP CINC's than Dem since Truman. Romney, that "dangerous" man, is still polling in the 40's, not the 20's or even 30's.

Sheldon wrote: Good Post STDS! These guys have no idea who they're supporting. Either that or this board is made up of 1 %'s.

Or we don't buy the Democrat's current platform of entitlement expansion in order to buy votes. You're voting for the exact same policies that brought down the Roman empire. Maybe the 'progressives' should pause for a minute to take a look at where that supposed progress leads.