I'm not defending anybody, but if the ideologues in the teabagger caucus will not compromise on anything, then we may as well shut the whole Congress down. (BTW, the lack of a capital letter for tebaggers is to show my disdain )
Our founders obviously intended different ideas to come into the governance of this country, and the differences sorted out by either compromise or consensus . What we have here, is one bunch will not give one bit on their demands, and the other side will not give in to all those demands.
Hopefully, in 2014 , we will rid ourselves of the teabaggers in Congress and elect either Democrats or reasonable Republicans. If not, we may be in for a long hard row to hoe.
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Stats are on for Republicans to gain seat in the Senate.
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Congress currently is less popular with the american people than a coc*roach
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No matter the party in power for the last 15 years, Congress's popularity has been low.