The biggest problem facing our nation is the Republican Party.

[kentuck]

When you break everything down to the common denominator, the wars, the debt, the economy, the deficits, the division, the obstruction, the politics, the banks disaster, it can almost all be placed at the feet of the Republican Party. They really don't care if our government goes under - they don't believe in government anyway. Those Democrats that have sided with the Republican Party have betrayed the American people.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Amen

As angry as I get with the Democrats, I believe fighting the republicans is more important.

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. My NEW Bumpersticker!

[abq e streeter]

3. Mostly agree

More emphasis on the betrayal by the spineless, sell-outs that I've watched most of the Democratic "leadership" become in the last 30 years has enabled the republicans to pollute our country to the extent they have ( which is basically what you're saying in the last sentence). The repubs couldn't have done it without the collaboration ( in the strictest WW2 sense of the word) and rolling over and playing dead by far too many Dems. But yes, I certainly agree about the republican party/cult...I wish this was an original line but it's something I saw here once: "To the Republicans; if you want to know how things got this ugly, just look in the mirror."

[Go2Peace]

4. I disagree, they are a *symptom*, the "problem" is much deeper

Get rid of them and it will just come up elsewhere or in a new party.

[stray cat]

5. I wish! Then all we would have to do is not elect them and it would fix everything

[butterfly77]

6. and a lot of the stupid people who follow them..

[leftstreet]

7. Wrong. The Republican party is dead

Reaganomics is dead

The Religious Right/Republican axis is dead

The Democrats had a clear mandate for change.

Where it at?

[earthside]

13. At least irrelevant.

Right NOW, the weak-kneed U.S. Senate Democratic leadership is the biggest problem facing the nation.

Imagine if they had had the guts to kill the filibuster rule at the beginning of this Congress ... health care reform would be a done deal by now; card check would be law by now; all of Obama's appointees would be in office by now; so on and so forth. If there was majority rule in the U.S. Senate then the progressive agenda would be well on the way to changing this country for the better.

Right NOW, Harry Reid and the Senate leadership could use a version of the 'nuclear option' to end the Republican 'tyranny of the minority'.

So, if the Republicans are a problem, it is only because the 57 Democrats plus one are letting 41 Republicans and one schmuck (Lieberman) be a problem. In the bigger picture, the minority status of the Republicans and their reactionary extremism is making them irrelevant to the governing of the country.

If you want this obstructionism to end, don't focus on the Republicans ... aim like a laser on Harry Reid and tell him to restore democracy to the United States Senate.

[tavalon]

26. Perhaps the reason little change is happening is actually because

Democrats don't really want the change. Perhaps they are using the Republican obstructionism as a cover. Perhaps we are being swindled by both sides working in tandem to help the moneyed class. I think these are the scenarios we need to begin looking at instead of wondering why "our" team is so ineffectual. Perhaps we don't actually have a team on our side.

[kentuck]

27. That type of thinking, outside of the box, is dangerous.

:-)

[DisgustedInMN]

28. Nicely stated!

I have zero influence with RW Repub idiots. Those that want to claim the name Democrat however, need to be held accountable for actually BEING DEMOCRATS, not Republican Lite.

Being "bipartisan" is just an excuse to take payoffs from corporations. Period. End of story.

[Demeter]

8. The Real Problem Is the Global Corporation

Such stateless, lawless, irresponsible groups of pirates have never before held so much power. There is no where one can go to escape their efforts to dictate everything about your life.

The people and their nations must come up with a viable plan to either end the reign of the Corporation, or chain it to submit to the nations and human rights.

[jotsy]

9. Nodding avidly!

[glinda]

12. Corporarepublicans spread out across the world. They must all go for a better world.

[timeforpeace]

10. Either that, or unemployment.

[kentuck]

19. And why are companies not hiring...?

The Republican Party!

[timeforpeace]

21. Of course! It's so darn simple. And simple is good.

[Forkboy]

20. I've seen you defend Repubs a lot, but not once defend a Democrat.

[amborin]

11. it's corporatists, of either stripe

[Bitwit1234]

14. ADD THE MEDIA...they appear to be worst

because if the did not enable republicans people wouldn't think they are so much.

[WinkyDink]

15. "They don't believe in government...." EXACTLY. They "believe" in taking every penny FROM US.

[pscot]

16. If you are looking for an argument

I think you've come to the wrong place.

[Alias Dictus Tyrant]

17. The biggest problem is that we are talking about "parties" instead of "people".

[Odin2005]

24. yep. politics is not a sport.

[Lint Head]

18. I would edit this to say......

The Greatest Threat Facing our Nation is the Republican Party!

[The Gunslinger]

22. It's been that way since Reagan.

[Odin2005]

23. No, the real problem is the CORPORATISM infecting both parties.

Quit thinking in terms of Dem-Puke, as if politics were a sport and we are chering on our team. Think in terms of Pro-Corporation and Pro-People

[applegrove]

25. The Rich GOP want to take all their money and invest it in Bric countries (Brazil, Russia,

India and China). That is fine but they should not be controlling american politics as they are, or not paying taxes if that is how they want to roll. I wonder when the vast majority of the middle class will realize that the USA is not where it is at for rich investors.

[Toots]

29. That should be a paid ad on the superbowl..

And playing daily on every radio and TV in the nation until we start moving back to some sanity.

[PHIMG]

30. I disagree. It's the conservative faction in the Democratic Party

Who have a blackball on legislation. They won't let the Democrats pass things like Medicare for All, reform that gives everyone in the USA a Cadillac plan and pays for itself by eliminating the wasteful and evil private insurers and their 30% overhead.

It's not Republicans who kept this out of the party platform. It's not Republicans who ordered the Baucus arrested. It's not Republicans who reneged on pledges to bring Medicare for All substitute amendements to the floor in the house, it's not Republicans who stripped the Kucinich state single payer option amendement.

The biggest problem are DINOS. Republicans in our caucus who turned a 60 seat super majority into a JOKE for the Democrats.

[wroberts189]

31. The subject line itself deserves a KNR. ...KNR nt

[tomp]

32. disagree.

the biggest problem is the collusion of both parties on a common agenda on behalf of the rich.

if one does not see that, one is clueless (and therefore, helpless).