..."The portrayal of Tea Partiers as crazy ideologues that sprouted suddenly from the grass roots in reaction to Barack Obama is not accurate. The Tea Party movement expressed dissatisfaction that had already long been fermenting. It was dissatisfaction with business-as-usual in Washington that was key to Obama getting nominated in the Democratic Party and elected president.
The Republican “establishment” is complicit in the problem because none of today’s biggest problems are new. They have been growing and obvious for many years and Republicans who have held power in Washington, both in the White House and in the congress, have ignored it all.
Barack Obama did not invent the problems with American health care. Costs were going through the roof before he got elected. Tens of millions of Americans were living without insurance before he got elected.
But Republicans did nothing. They were afraid of being bold, of taking on hard issues, of being too ideological.
So Americans elected a president, twice, who was not afraid of being bold, of taking on hard issues, and of being ideological."...
But in 2010, they took Congress back from the new ideas Dem party and gave it back to the do-nothings. And the do-nothing GOP continues to stay in power in the House and has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
