[exDemMom]

Instead, Senate Majority Leader McConnell folded like a cheap suit, abandoning efforts to defund President Obama’s amnesty efforts.

When Republicans get elected to office and go to Washington, they end up being harassed endlessly by liberals. Everything they do is criticized; they are called mean-spirited and heartless with every act.

I think, in part, we can see in them the normal behavior of victims of bullying everywhere. Bullies convince their victims that they really deserve every abuse the bully heaps on them. This then leads to Stockholm syndrome, where the victims sympathize with their abusers.

We should take the politicians out of Washington. Instead of sending them there to live among the bullies, let them stay in their own states. They can debate and vote by video conference, and otherwise be surrounded by the people whom they are supposed to represent. This could give them the emotional strength they need to stand up against powerful liberal bullies.

[ConservingFreedom]

I think, in part, we can see in them the normal behavior of victims of bullying everywhere. Bullies convince their victims that they really deserve every abuse the bully heaps on them. This then leads to Stockholm syndrome, where the victims sympathize with their abusers.

I think this aptly characterizes the Kool-Aid-drinking conservatives who keep voting for a party that spits in their face.