[bert]

I do not fault your effort nor your admiration for Cruz’s character.

I don’t really disagree on that point.

However I prefer to keep things as honest as reasonably possible and consider the oft repeated lore that the Republicans did nothing to be Free Republic dogma that is in error

I want an inadvertant lurker to see that there is some sanity here

[Smokin' Joe]

I agree. You see where the question came from, my bad getting sucked into that. Republicans did push back. The inability to obtain a veto-proof majority is part of the problem.

The electorate is frustrated, sure enough, with the absence of effect, but I think much of that is an agency obstruction problem (DOJ, for one) which continues the moving screen for the criminal acts of this administration.

The capitulation of Boehner and McConnell on key points is execrable, and sets the tone for the rancor which follows. The voters are fed up, at least those who are out of work, lost businesses and or jobs, and a host of other reasons.

I just pray, in our frustration and desire to remedy the ills of this country that we do not act rashly and thus increase them.