What’s the reason for the flight? Call me crazy, but the flight is happening because “Republicans” feel their party isn’t standing up to the egregious spending and is actually part of the problem. Were it so simple that the CA Republican was voting to make sure that old bills got paid.

If your representative you voted into office voted against one of your core values, you would be angry. They aren’t in office to do what they think is right. They are there to do what their constituents wanted them to do. If they do not, what is wrong with their constituents turning on them? Who cares if the Republican Party gets all up in arms about how one party member votes because absolutely no one is listening to them right now anyway. Democrats are fools to think otherwise.

You wrote a perfectly valid post arguing for discourse and you made it null-and-void with not-so-subtle references to Hitler in reference to the Republican Party. In one single line you made the argument emotional rather than factual. And unfortunately, that makes someone react like you would. I turn off the t.v.

It’s been entertaining to watch the Grand Outrage Party implode in recent months. Obama’s election facilitated the collapse of their “Big Tent” illusion once and for all. With the “purity test” it’s official, they’re eating their young. Now Mitt Romney would likely pass that purity test (such a loaded choice of words, isn’t it?), but will the religious extremists of the party run him out on a rail for being a Mormon, again?

The nastier and more exclusive they get, the more it makes Democrats look like the moderate alternative, and that’s just fine with me.

Anyway, weren’t these leaders (on both sides) elected to act on behalf of their constituents – not of their party or of multi-national corporations?? We as voters have allowed them to get away with it. Something’s gotta change!!