because I see it as the only solution. The Republican House is the problem and needs to go, even if it is annihilated. What has to be done, has to be done. They have had every chance to prove they can govern but their only mission has been to obstruct and in turn try to annihilate the Democratic Party. If that isn't a War footing between the Parties, then what is? Voters in those Red Districts that are not intolerant extremists, has to know where their true interests are. It is not with Wall Street. Intolerant people and Wall Street are the pupeteers of the Republican House. The only interests they care about are theirs. Mittens bought up the 47 percent but he had an audience in the room. Guess who was present.

Mutt has never offered even a transparent 'apology' for the attitude he so clearly expressed in his 47% statement. He's only sorry that he got caught and angry that it helped cost him the election. My favorite story of the aftermath: when his faithful foot soldiers checked out of the hotel next morning, they found that they campaign credit cards had been cancelled. Mr. Got-Rocks stuck them with a huge bill, which I'm sure was a real hardship on some. Though I doubt it woke them up to his true nature. The man's downright sociopathic and reflects absolutely the amoral condition of his kind.

As a Progressive like many other progressives I have often been dismayed initially at the President's Centrist leanings which can at times look like betrayals of the Progressive base in both elections for President.

However, looking at his actions and their results, I just believe the President tries to move the country forward and never really forgets his progressive values. I am not just saying he thinks a part of the pie is better than no pie at all. I am saying that even though it looks like he gave up more than necessary in negotiations with the other party, upon retrospection, I find he has achieved much much more than we could have expected towards our progressive values and for our people.

The President made pleas to our progressive values during the campaign. At the time I questioned if this was just campaigning and would be forgotten after re-election. Now I see that these calls were not made to his base but to all Americans. I see now that Americans have the progressive values I profess and that eliciting these is a call to be an American. Yes the President makes the best deal he can and it ain't perfect.

And now we see the President speaking out again and again for progressive desires based on our better selves. They call this this destruction of the republican party? It looks like the President is just trying to help rank and file republicans revitalize the real Christian values they profess so loudly. President Obama is not trying to kill a republican party, he is pointing out what it means to be a real American. It is up to republican rank and file if they want to stay on this ship of sinking devoid of ideals and consistency or do they want to reinvent themselves with shared American values of community, looking out for your neighbor, taking care of the poor and needy, leading by force of admirable example rather than just threats,believing in democracy everywhere, etc. While all of these pose a threat to republican leadership and the teaparty, they are values supported by most of those who have traditionally voted republican. The republican party has left its members and unless it returns to what they really want which is very close to what democrats want, then the republican party can never reclaim majority support for their ideas.

The battle has been fought and progressive ideas rule the majority of minds in this country. This is what the President is reminding us of. He is reminding us that the People are better than the servants of the very very greedy rich. He is reminding us of the needs of our country. He is reminding us of the ideals of Real Americanism, not democrat or serving the very rich, but a good neighbor to our people and the peoples of the world. He is just calling on all Americans to listen to the better part of their nature, their humanity.

But be not dissuaded , this dastardly plot to destroy the will and power of the republican party is working well. The President is wielding it like a surgeons scalpel first to reveal the sickness underneath and then removing the tumors with many, many planned and well executed cuts.

Bye Bye Party crazies, welcome new Americans no matter what you call yourselves. Thank you President Obama!

Well said indeed.

People who know how far to the left I stand even from Kucinich sometimes wonder about my loyalty to this president. But he has to be pragmatic and full of long range plans as you described so well in order to move the country forward an inch. I respect and appreciate that. Big ships turn slow.

As to that and President Obama's tendency to play things a little close to the vest, someone close (was it Biden?) cleverly warned people, "Do not EVER play poker with that man." Sounds like he might've spoken from experience. If the Secret Service can only keep him alive long enough, we might see a beautiful new day dawning in America. I always thought of President Obama as our Bobby returned to us.

As soon as Barack Obama appeared on the national scene, I started telling people that he would be our next president. Almost everybody derided that opinion even after they became aware of his identity and politics. So for the longest time, naturally they tried to pick him apart, saying he was too soft and weak to win higher office, etc. until the real vitriol started. His winning a second term was one of the high points of MY life. Like anyone else, I love being proved right.

However, given the savagery the GOP has shown since that time, it has only deepened my disgust with them. If I had it in my power, I'd relegate the whole lot to the dustbin of history. Well, I can do a tiny part in service to that noble cause. But I tell you true, the day after President Obama won his second term, I stayed home because the knuckle draggers in this corner of RedNeckLand can be very spiteful and downright dangerous. If we regain the House in 2014 with real Democrats, not bluedog RINO's, I'll stay home indoors the next day too. I've been threatened too much already, as in an ominous "The only good Democrat is a dead one" type of statements. The next beer bottle thrown at me from a passing vehicle might actually make its mark, who knows.

But if I had a magic wand to wave the GOP into political (not physical!) annihilation, I'd do so in a heartbeat. Wasn't it Upton Sinclair or someone like him who said, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible." The entire GOP is fascist to the core!