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“If we had a muscular GOP they would turn the Kenyan monkey’s precious pen sideways and shove it deep up his wazoo.”

The NSA and FBI have the goods on the GOP members of Congress. Their mistresses, drug problems, and money problems are used for extortion by the administration. Remember the FBI file incident early in the Clinton administration?

Our GOP representatives are human. After a few years inside the beltway, the succumb to the temptations placed before them. One taste of the forbidden fruit and they are hooked forever. This is why you see strong Christian conservative men and women abandoning their principles, families, friends and constituents after 2-3 election cycles. One cannot live in a corrupt environment for long without becoming corrupted.

It is not a question of the GOP being muscular. McConnell and Boehner have been extremely muscular in neutralizing the Tea Party and conservative base. They were extremely muscular in getting special favors for Wall Street packed into the recent budget bill.

Their impotence in dealing with Obama and the Democrats has only two possible explanations:

1) They are in agreement with the policies
2) They are corrupt and Obama is extorting them

It's not so much that they're in agreement on specific policies as it is on having policies in general that cause lobbyists to curry favor with Congress through money, hookers, and fawning. When they say they're making the best of a bad bill, what they really mean is getting something for themselves instead of being shut out. That's why they hate conservatives because we want smaller government which means fewer lobbyists which means big drops in money, hookers, and fawning.

The RATS know this and usually take care of their RINO buddies which was the operating model for the '70s when the Republicans were a very content, non-threatening in size minority with essentially permanent seats. When forced into power by conservatives, the RINOs work with their RAT betters to undermine the conservatives which keeps the game going.

This doesn't mean there isn't a corrupting influence from being in Washington for surely there is. You start to see it in a progression of pronouncing it “WaRshington” like the area natives do, stories of having a pal across the aisle, and the clincher—the donning of the round, tortoise-shell glasses. That's the sign they're firmly lost in the depths of the DC cesspool.

"Our GOP representatives are human. After a few years inside the beltway, the succumb to the temptations placed before them." It seems to happen to all of them. They talk a good game to get elected, go to a few parties and get a taste of power, then morph into what we were voting against. All the while they try to convince us that we don't know how things get done in Washington. Until they see the guillotines erected on the National Mall, and know the citizenry has the will to use them ... nothing will change.

I started to "correct" your comment: “If we had a muscular to a testicular GOP they would turn the Kenyan monkey’s precious pen sideways and shove it deep up his wazoo.”

But then I realized that is exactly what his Royal Highness would like.