Why they can’t grasp this is something I don’t understand.
Perhaps in 2008 it could’ve been attributed to ignorance. Nobody really knew Obama would be this bad, did they? OK, maybe some of us speculated, but we can’t know the future.
Here, three unimaginably bad years later, I cannot believe people are still saying this crap. They’ll be proud to “stand on principle,” but what they’re doing is guarding their homesteads in what is likely to be a proverbial post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once America.
Collapse of the federal government doesn't result in collapse of the states, or some sort of apocalypse. The federal government can't be unwound gracefully. It built itself into a house of cards. The reckoning will come sooner or later.
Another point, that being that Congress has more to do with setting public policy, than the president does. The public has been fooled and conditioned into accepting the president as the domestic policy setter. He is that, only to the extent Congress invites and accepts it, and Congress is ALWAYS looking to blame somebody else, especially when it (Congress) is totally to blame for tax policy, spending policy, entitlement programs, administrative agencies, etc.
I for one will NOT be helping 0bama get another 4 years by refusing to vote just because my favorite candidate isn't on the ticket in Nov 2012. I'll be voting for whoever ends up on the GOP ticket - even if I have to chug maalox first.