Not a Good Mixture

Just so we are all sure what it is we are dealing with here:

Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority. It is the party of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but also of the government shutdown in 1995 and the impeachment trial of 1999. If there is an earlier American precedent for today’s Republican Party, it is the antebellum Southern Democrats of John Calhoun who threatened to nullify, or disregard, federal legislation they objected to, and who later led the fight to secede from the union over slavery.-- John Judis

Now the other half of our problem is we have a president that is more than willing to bend over backwards so as not to upset the crazies. A president that ran on ending the Bush tax cuts, closing Gitmo, instituting a public option for health care and stood opposed to war without end seems like a stranger to us all now.