The GOP is incapable of governing
And that includes health care reform. Until the voters decide that intelligennce, education, and experience are more important than spite and emotions, they will remain unfit.
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Right-on-Point! 
I feel the same way. Not gonna give up, but it sure doesn't look good. I'm in my mid-60s now, and I've NEVER seen it this bad.
And the sad part, this shit is something the CONS brought upon themselves.
I think the reason so many Americans wanted to do something drastic last November ("just burn it all down!"
because government sucks and doesn't work and is for shit - is BECAUSE OF THE GOP. The GOP spent the previous eight years DELIBERATELY DOING NOTHING.
They obstructed. Plans for that began on Inauguration Night in January 2009. Thank you Mitch McConnell - who led this pack of vermin in a VERY evil, stupid, and colossally counterproductive scheme to say no to EVERYTHING. Obstruct EVERYTHING. Not allow the new president to put ANY points on the board. Even when he wanted to put THEIR points on the board for the benefit of everyone! Even when he wanted to bring THEIR original ideas up for discussion. The plan was to make sure Barack Obama was a one-term president. That's all it was. So they sat and did absolutely nothing, on the taxpayers' dime, for EIGHT FREAKIN' wasted useless squandered years. I'm frankly amazed that Obama and the Dems got anything done AT ALL.
So that, I think, is what ignited the so-called "angry voters" and the "forgotten Americans" who didn't see anything getting done, and they decided to say a big fat F-You and blow the place up. Put the most incendiary and flakey home-made human pressure-cooker bomb to the White House and just let him go off.
But not one of 'em thought this through. NOT ONE. Not ONE of 'em thought - uh - gee - wait a minute - what if they DO take my "Obamacare" away? I've got nothing else!" "Uh - gee - um - wait a minute ... uh, hey - I didn't mean for THAT to happen... " Not ONE of them paused for even one instant to consider what the consequences might be if they did this. What would the ramifications be if you help send Captain Chaos into the job site? And all HE knows how to do is slick-talk and sell you snake oil that you don't need and that doesn't work anyway, but he does know how to create chaos.
But it was far more important to give themselves an outlet to express their anger. Seems to me you do that in some therapist's office or group counseling session, or bull session with your buds over beer or something. You DON'T take your mad-on and vomit it all over the rest of us from coast to coast!
Do you think the deplorable contingent REALLY wanted all this? Or maybe they don't even view it this way. After all, he's signing all these important-looking pieces of paper in important-looking leather menus. So he's gettin' stuff done!
I think about this stuff and sometimes I just want to go back to bed and pull the covers up over my head and hide in there. I don't know that there is any hope. I don't know if enough of the deplorables are redeemable, or even just minimally reachable.
