Republicans have really gone off the deep end for this election year...

I want to know why nobody ever calls them out on this crap. If this happened over here the media would have a field day and more than likely said fool would not only end his election but also have to say sorry to the offended country.

My take on this:


My parents are evangelical Christians (i'm 33, for reference). Over Christmas, my mother repeatedly asked what I think of Santorum.

In their minds it is very simple; does he share my faith? If so he MUST be the right choice.

What really scares me is that they agree with his bigotry and racism! Of course they would never admit that's what it truly is.


They've gone bat-****-insane, and I am not sure what to do about it.

The left media in the US will get around to it sooner or later. Currently they are too busy with other silly nonsense that has come out of Santorum's frothy mouth.

P.S. Google "Santorum"

In America freedom means to never have to apologize or take responsibility for ones actions

Totally feels like this from the outside...

The fact that the GOP has gone absolutely over-the-top batpoo crazy shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Let's recap the last four years..

1) They decided to put winning the presidency above absolutely everything, including inconvenient things like actually running the country or bothering to be honest when it got in the way of being right.

2) They decided that all the moderates weren't real republicans and proceeded to purge as many of them as they could

3) The Tea Party, which started out as astroturf and morphed into a terrifyingly real amalgamation of every hick stereotype there is.

4) Big talk show hosts and Fox News took over the party from the people who were actually supposed to be running it, and they seem to be as interested in keeping their base in as milkable a frenzy as possible as actually winning elections.

I expect the GOP will eventually move back to the middle - the Tea Party is fading away already and even the most crazy right-winger would be hard-pressed not to recognize the current primary circus for what it is. But not this election - Romney might have a chance but even so his own party is making him move so far to the right Obama will just be able to play Romney's own soundbites this summer for campaign ads.

But really, this should have happened years ago when the republican congress and tea party members started screwing things up and being unwilling to even begin to compromise.

Why compromise one's principles? If you feel that XYZ is the right thing, then why should you sacrifice any of it?

Compromise is a word pulled out and often used as a tactic to whine about not getting something. "You're so unreasonable, just compromise, just give me a little of my liberty destroying policy, I promise I won't ask for more, until next time when I whine about compromise again."

Compromise is the grease on the slope to tyranny.

This is why your countries infrastructure is falling apart.

and they can't blame anybody but themselves.


but then again, it's the same for my country and any country that is struggling against debt crisis.

This is why your countries infrastructure is falling apart.

My countries infrastructure is coming apart because arsewipes keep on setting themselves on fire trying to steal power cables from rail lines and substations

IMHO, Republicans jumped the shark of moral pettiness with their attempt to impeach Bill Clinton.

Was so shamelessly self-serving and partisan that it was embarrassing to see. It completely killed the spirit that a POTUS should be better than the other guy, and opened the can of worms where Presidents don't win elections, rather the other guy loses them.

How so?

Why compromise one's principles? If you feel that XYZ is the right thing, then why should you sacrifice any of it?

Nothing ever gets done.

Part of that is because the federal government, USA anyway, has taken power from the states and local municipalities..

Hint for the clueless: the same kind of disagreement still exists at the state and local levels. It doesn't matter what level of government you're at, you either compromise or you don't do your job.

So this is where the Tea Party supporters are getting the idea that any kind of health care would mean the government would start putting down older people?

There is no job requirement to "comprimise" for a legislator.

Look up Tom Daschle and terms like "evidence-based care." and "comparative effectiveness" if you want to know the origin of that "death panel" bit.

Well for what its worth, he is right about Holland, i have a very good friend of many years from Holland, she recently told me her grandfather was basically put down

No, but you DO have jobs like "pass a budget each year so the police department doesn't have to shut down", and you aren't going to be able to do that job if you aren't willing to compromise. As much as idiot conservatives think that ideological purity is the most important thing in a politician, it's a really bad way of getting anything done.

So yes, we SHOULD consider whether the current approach of "do everything possible" is really a productive one, or just a waste of limited resources that would be better spent on patients which actually have a non-trivial chance of recovery. We SHOULD consider various end-of-life options, including the ability for a person to choose to die peacefully, and offer unbiased information and advice about the full range of options.

The only way to turn this into "death panels" is if you're either an ignorant moron, or a conservative politician who knows that ignorant morons are very good at getting people elected.