My goodness! Are you somehow suggesting that it's any different this time around? That this country has been "governed" by purely partisan politics for at least twenty years that I remember?

No, it's not funny that the Democrats all voted against Republican-sponsored legislation, any more than the opposite. What is shows is that for whatever reasons--but I think in the end it all boils down to money and power and special interests--our system of government is broken. It doesn't work. It's dysfunctional regardless of which party is in the majority.

If you're going to try to tell me that it would all be different if the GOP was in total control, I'd laugh. They were for eight years. See where that got us. Then the Democrats had control and it wasn't any better.

Now it's even more screwed up because we have the Tea Party, which appear to be a bunch of inexperienced, not too smart, my way or the highway ideologues. Maybe there are some others out there that embrace the same fiscal philosophies, but would be better at winning battle after battle instead of trying to win the war all in one shot. But it's sure not these guys.