Along with a bloated Federal monstrosity that stands on the threshold of crushing the breath of liberty out of what was once a free people.
DING DING DING!! WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!! The Obama enabling GOP-E (Boehner, McConnell, pretty much any Republican who's been in Government more than 12 years) are the problem too!!
To quote Jack Nicholson (partially) from the original Batman movie: "Both Parties Need An Enema!"
Flush 'em both!
Of course you are on the money! I am bored silly with all this talk about Obama; about The Democrat Party. The imminent death of this republic is not due to the Democrats, whom we have known for decades to be ideologically driven by theories farther left than Marx (and Mars.)
The problem is the Republican Party. Somewhere in the 1940's, the GOP Thought Squad figured out that the default position of the American people was Democrat. By then, after 4 terms of Roosevelt, the bureaucracy was firmly entrenched and overwhelming Democrat.
"WTF," somebody up there thought, "we're goin' nowhere, why don't we take advantage of this and just make sure we get our cut?"
They traded responsibility, adherence to Constitutional law, and sound fiscal management for safe seats and power/perks/pork just as eternal as their Democrat colleagues across the aisle.
The only flaw in RINO/GOPe reasoning is that they have no plan for that inevitable day when the whole shebang collapses. That is, no plan for us. Rest assured that their personal asses are well covered.
The ancient Greeks recognized that all democratic systems go broke. It's just arithmetic. It's really over when those in power realize that they can write checks on the public monies to those who will, in return, keep them in power.
Democracy, Poverty, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Revolution. The Founders realized this, of course. They combined Democracy with a Republic:
Ben Franklin's "A Republic if we can keep it."
When something like an Obama can win an election and the other team offers a McCain, it's obvious we can't. Not for long, especially when half the eligible citizenry can't be bothered to vote and their leaders can't be bothered to make sure that ineligible non-citizens don't.