Villages Kahuna you are the voice of reason in this column. Why can't all the staunch Republicans & Democrats see that nothing is as black & white as they try to argue. Both parties are responsible for where we are at now, so get off continuous trashing of the OTHER party. These clowns in office who we pay very well to represent us are kowtowing to special interests, corporations, multi-millionaires, bleeding hearts, foreign governments, illegal aliens, etc. They need to find an intermediate common ground for the good of this country as a whole but we're seeing no inclination by them to do so.