>>The end of America as we know it.<<
I agree, except the America I knew ended a long time ago. The Republicans were reprehensible. They had the power, and were pathetic.
Ultimately though, it is not the politicians that are responsible, it is the voters.
If you want to know what is wrong with the US, just go to the mall and watch it's citizens. Turn on the TV and watch their programming. It is a seriously sick culture and that just comes to the surface in the quality of leaders we choose, on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Absolutely right. Even the Republicans have no ethics anymore. Why? Because they went to the same schools, watched the same junk entertainment, read the same trashy magazines. Our culture is probably terminally ill. It's tragic that so many good people, like our heroic military personnel, are going to suffer along with the sheeple, but history (including the Biblical history of Israel) demonstrates that when nations abandon principle and become morally corrupt, the entire populace has to pay. Seems very unfair, but that's the way it is.