[TheRealThing]

Absolutely and sadly true. The Republicans have no answers whatsoever. All they do is whine and blow smoke out their butts. Issa, Chaffetz, Cantor, Boehner, etc. will never take a hard line on the Obama scandals. Now, they are giving Lois Lerner another week delay. The only Republican who appears to have a backbone is Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Obama gets by with all this crap because of the weak leaders in the Republican Party. To Hell with all of them.

Hey Harry, welcome back. LOL, so we can safely assume you harbor some mild measure of dissatisfaction with mealy mouthing Republicans then?

As you are no doubt aware, I agree with you on a great many things. I would suggest a defense for Republicans though, even if I don't agree with the rationale. Remember the cold war military doctrine known as M.A.D., or Mutual Assured Destruction? In the case between the two so-called super powers of the US and the USSR. Even though Russia had successfully gobbled up Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, the deterrent posed by the US nuclear and conventional threat proved to be sufficient to keep the Soviet Union at bay. BTW, the crown jewel of all those states would be none other than Ukraine.

It was 1962 and we were deadlocked in the great stare down between our two nations that occurred in tiny Cuba. Russia chose discretion as the better part of valor. Fast forward to our day and extrapolate the concept of mutually assured destruction to the US political arena. Today's progressives seem steeled, poised for win or ruin. I honestly believe that Republicans are trying to demonstrate statesmanship in their efforts to as gently as possible, guide the US Ship of State back into the traditionally familiar waters of which, you and I know so well. Democrats on the other hand, are all-in, hell bent if you will, to see the US "transformed" to the liberal vision.

How can the federal government function when one party is willing to put party agenda over country? The result being the ruination of the whole, a cascade of stability in a scenario that looks a whole lot like M.A.D., the detonator being a national distrust in government. A nuclear food fight big enough and messy enough, to SCRAM the Congress. What is this rush to social change? American citizens are not the ones who want change at any cost. Rather such are the divisive results of a socio-political agenda manifesting itself within our society. Are conservatives and Republicans who look to the midterms of this fall equally naïve, or given the possibility of wresting the control of the Senate from the hands of Harry Reid, could they actually see some light at the end of the tunnel?