I am not missing the point, GfinS...

The Republican Party has shown over the last two years that it has no interest in anything useful becoming law... That have "stood and the doorway and blocked up the halls" just as the rednecks did 50 years ago over school desegregation... They have filibustered or threaten to filibuster even their own bills just to show how serious they are about nothing coming out of Congress...

This obstructionism is the reason that we can't get sensible legislation that addresses out problems...

They are 99% of America's problem right now and the reason why S & P downgraded *US*...

That is reality... Your opinion that both parties are responsible for this mess is 100% wrong and nothing more than the Republican #1 PR talking point... It is the BIG LIE!!!

B~