[jpl]

There is always some excuse to cave in, and there always will be. "Just give us all three branches and next time we promise to stop beating you. No, we really, really, REALLY mean it for real this time."

Whatever. I'm so tired of the bullcrap.

[Servant of the Cross]

"Just give us all three branches and next time we promise to stop beating you ...

You have every right to disbelieve it will be different based on past performance.

However, I believe the "staggering rebuke" of the "counterrevolution" of the Tea Party movement in 2010, and the new legislators that came to DC, changed everything. It will be different next time. The welfare state is unsustainable and at least 50.1% of the country now knows that personally. Never before has this been the case.