>Don't feed the trolls Mike
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>Nicholas, what is with this recent trend of sharp personal remarks from you?
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>Mike acknowledged what most people in this country agree on - that both parties are behaving badly right now. They behave badly in different ways but neither one is looking good at all right now.
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>The fact that someone "left of center" has expressed any disappointment with his own party shouldn't prompt any more of an instruction for silence ("don't feed the trolls") than it would be for someone "right of center" to jump on me when I'm critical of Republicans for being pious and overly-obstructive. I think Marcia would probably agree with me that we don't feel "empowered" at all that someone left of center is frustrated with his own party
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>While our views might be different, most American share a common frustration that our federal government is unacceptably dysfunctional right now.
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>There are certainly Republicans who have made it their stated goal to get Obama out of office. That's not at all constructive, but it would also be denial to discount that Obama brought a certain amount of that on himself with his conduct in the first two years of his presidency and again in the last 18 months. There's a history of bad blood, with both sides bearing responsibility, and it's important to know that history.

You should consider how a country can be governed.It has to be by consent. The Republican right seem to be leaving that . They should concentrate on getting their "turn". I wouldn't mind but for the most powerful country on earth to be lurching round like this is not re-assuring