re: #59 stevemcg

It’s amazing to me that after stuff like this and especially the W administration, independents still don’t get the message that Republicans can’t be trusted with anything.

re: #60 MarkAM

What’s the difference? When the Democrats were in the minority, they weren’t nearly as obstructionist. That’s a simple fact.

This is the dilemna that voters face. It is difficult to inspire trust by being the party that is misbehaving to a lesser degree. Right now the GOP is misbehaving to the degree they thing anti-incumbant sentiment will cover their tantrums. Which right now is a lot of coverage and a lot of misbehavior.

The Dems on the other hand acted like 51% of the electorate was a mandate to force their full agenda regardless of public input or sentiment.

I don’t believe that this means the Republicans have been secretly plotting to screw America since the 1960s any more than I believe that President Obama is a communist plant.

Politicians by their very nature are opportunists and panderers and we have rewarded this behavior.

Both parties are paying the price in popularity - but the populace is paying the most for our short sighted thinking and lack of participation during elections. The only way to reverse the political polarization and idiocy is by getting involved at a grassroots level and rewarding true statesmanship and good governance with re-election.