just as simple to evaluate what a person does without regard to party affiliation?
In corporate America for my 40+ years there was no need to know a person's religion or race or political affiliation to determine how they were doing their job.

Executives are measured on performance. Politicians are not executives. Most do not have the aptitude to manage. Almost none have the ability to lead.
And even if they did they are in a system that retards doing what is right. The system only knows how to deal with that which is deemed politically correct. You know, the concept where one does not have to do what is right.

Almost everything the government does...local and federal...R' and D's ....and what ever...operate solely on the knee jerk response mode of solving a problem that blows up in their face. Then the priority is to assign blame. Next comes what can be done that makes political hay...usually takes more time than a serious problem would dictate....like a leaking oil pipe in the gulf.

Just watch for the energy real disaster that is ticking in the background. 40 years have passed since initial commitments were made to become energy independent. And all that had been accomplished is we are now double the percent dependent on foreign oil (70+%) than we were in the 70's. Nothing has been done. Nothing is being done on a planned methodical basis to accomplish the task.

And just like we the people today are living life to the fullest without a care in the world as one of the most devastating disastor is daily killing off a precious resource, the gulf states, the wild life, the sea life, the jobs, etc.
We the people are great at as long as it is not in my back yard politics.
That is why Washington is full of incompetence from the WH to the senate to congress.

The T party movement is not aggressive enough to wrench this country back to where it belongs.

Me, I heartily support a revolution like the industrial revolution of history. First give Washington an enema...flush out all the wordy flunkies R and D.
Then take this country in a direction that parallels what was accomplished during the 1900's.

It is just that simple. The difficulty is the lack of involvement by...we the people...at a serious enough pace.

Hence the mediocrity we have....we have what we deserve....and it matters not whether the assignation is R or D...I know that is a disappointment because being able to put things neatly in little cubby holes makes things so much easier.....(sarcasm intended!).


btk