There has been a lot of breast-beating lately about 'taking back the country' and 'honoring the Constitution' but the republic is rotting on its old abused foundations. The U.S. Senate, conceived as the 'saucer' in which to pour and cool an impassioned public's 'hot cup of tea', is now a cabal of co-conspirators committed to the art of delay and shameless obstruction.
Rules once employed to ensure proper deliberation and consideration of important issues are now used to pursue an exclusively partisan agenda. As a result, problems mount, progress is delayed at the public's expense simply for a political gain. Half of the Democrats and the entire Republican Party now apply obstructionist tactics. The Right-Wing with one goal in mind: defeat Barack Obama. America be damned.
This extreme oppose-at-any-cost tactic is about to send American foreign policy into disarray. It does not matter if the security of the country is at stake. For the Senate's hyper-partisan Republicans all that matters is that no good deed gets credited to a Democratic president.
"key Republican senator casts on the Obama administration's chances of passing nuclear treaty with Russia".--Washington Monthly "... a treaty endorsed by six former secretaries of state and five former secretaries of defense from both parties; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; seven former Strategic Command chiefs; national security advisers from both parties, and nearly all former commanders of U.S. nuclear forces."
Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on in horror, wondering what on earth are these Republicans drinking? Apparently a lot of hot tea and kool-aid.
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