This has far less to do with hyper partisan politics and just about everything to do with radicalized southern politics. Who are these tea baggers that are having such a profound impact on radicalizing the GOP? They are predominantly southern radical conservatives, financed largely by ubber wealthy oligarchs. They represent approximately 5% of the nation mostly in the south and rural Midwest.
Unfortunately they have a constituency who have bought into southern nullification, a completely discredited political philosophy. Why is it discredited? At the most fundamental level because it cannot govern.
The Democrats have often been criticized for their lack of organization and correctly too. Dems are famous for their circular firing squads. Repubs on the other hand can't stand prosperity and have a tendency to let radicals lead the party and they usually lead the party to obscurity. That appears to be happening again.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...TINGS-America-ungovernable.html#ixzz2hbgCHd9CIn Britain, most MPs of all parties consider Westminster to be as much home as their constituencies.
But the United States is different. The senators and congressmen who fly into Washington on Monday nights and jet out again on Thursdays never cease to belong first and always to Kansas, Montana, Alabama or wherever else they hail from.
President Eisenhower said ruefully about Washington: ‘Everyone is too far from home.’
Most Republican constituencies are not merely thousands of miles from the capital; they are also culturally light years distant.
Many of the legislators orchestrating the federal shutdown feel as foreign among East Coast smart-asses — as they would characterise Washington’s elite — as did the Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett when he was elected to Congress in 1826.
Constituency boundaries have always been ruthlessly manipulated to create safe seats for either Republicans or Democrats. The consequence is that party primary elections are often decisive in determining who gets to go to Washington.
This is how the powerful Right-wing Tea Party, dedicated activists, have gained such leverage. Incumbent Republicans live in mortal dread of being ousted at election time not by Democrats, but by far-out Right-wingers on their own side.
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Divided: Seldom, if ever, has the chasm between the sophistication of the East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle American lawmakers yawned wider
Even if they would like to act temperately in this crisis, they dare not.
What a crew they are. Steve Stockman, a Texan who sits in the House of Representatives, is a former homeless man who has faced drugs charges. He distributed bumper stickers during his last election campaign urging the arming of foetuses: ‘If Babies had Guns, They Wouldn’t be Aborted!’
The grassroots are obsessed with firearms. I have sometimes struck up casual conversations about gun law in rural states such as Kansas or Wyoming; it is like holding a dialogue with Martians.
Say, how well did one party Democrat rule work in Detroit?when we get all dems or mostly dems things get fixed.
then the republicans pretend the fix is horrible and will end the world as we know it.
then they spend all their energy in office tearing the hell out of government.
then we get a crash of some kind and the dems get back in fix the mess and start to get things done and then the republican scream the things they are doing are killing grandma or some other lie and it starts all over again.
savings and loan crashes.
energy crashes
housing crashes
they are all due to republican deregulation.
what democratic "fringe" person in office are you so upset at that you say they are the same as these tea tards?
I pretty much quit following partisan politics, i did so all my life, and was a registered Dem.
No doubt the tea party is one of obstructionism - my concern is more about the war party both sides are held hostage to.
I could make the case Obama's Afgan policy is actually worse the Bush's, with his escalazation/de escalation and his "transitioning" very similar to "Vietnamization"
we'll have to see how the Afgan National Army holds, up, once we cut the ties - but the Taliban kinna remind me of the Viet Cong;
they aren't going to just be happy in a support role with any Afgan gov't
Nova was in the navy and passed on free college!Nova again rolls out the line "Dems refuse to negotiate"
But the spending in the CR is way below what Dems wanted; it's almost down to the Ryan budget, and includes the sequester cuts.
So the Dems have already given up a lot of what they want. And yet the repubs say "Dems won't negotiate". Why should the Dems give more? Why don't the Repubs pass the clean CR - for an amount they wanted - instead of sending up individual bills or instead of tying the CR to the ACA?
Why do conservatives think it's the Dem's fault? Honestly - I'd like to know - why do conservatives think Dems should, at the last minute, give up even more than previously negotiated?
the democratic party didn't rule there.
Its was corrupt businessmen who paid off whomever was in office.
your team just didn't get that money.
is that why your so pissed about it?
America is becoming ungovernable
This is why we need someone to suspend the constitution, declare martial law, and rule by decree. Only one candidate has the balls to take these vital steps and stick it to the know-nothings in congress: vote Watermark 2016!