Consider how the republicans wasted just about the entire 8 years of the G. W. Bush presidency.
They didn't do much and most of what they did do made things worse.
Didn't they ever consider what a bad president could do with the power vested in the Patriot Act?
Didn't they ever consider what democrats could do with the immigration issue when they failed to seal the borders and strengthen the E-Verify system and make it mandatory?
Everyone knew democrats wanted to pass a version of Hillary Care if they ever won the presidency again but republicans did nothing to remedy the healthcare problems that gave democrats open issues.
So many of the issues that have been nightmares for us in the Obama era could (and should) have been dealt with and removed as issues before anyone ever heard of Obama.
In fact, if republicans had taken care of business back then it is entirely possible that Obama, or any other democrat, would have ever been elected in 2008.
I wholeheartedly agree !! That is why we can expect the same old bowl of crap with the same complacent leadership that existed then, and still exists now.
That's why I would like to see "RECALL" for all FED/State offices.
The "tidal wave" of the last election included Democrats and GOP who don't like where the country is headed.
And if the GOPe doesn't recognized that, they need to be relegated to the political trash heap.
Given restrictions that has been imposed on the GOP, regarding court ordered consequence to alledged 'voter supression' several years ago ,
and as a consequence they cannot challenge 'voter fraud', the leadership agreed to their own decline and irrelevence.
Is it too soon, or too late to call for a third party ?
That was my argument prior to the election, when all the "Gotta vote Republican, because Republican is better than Democrats!" Robots were on the scene. R's held the House, Senate AND WHITE HOUSE from 2000-2006, and look what they did with it: We got the so called "Patriot" Act, Part D and the beginning of a legacy of bailouts and too big to fail policy. And here we thought they were actually going to do something big with those 6 years! HA! And the next couple of years will be no different. If we couldn't make serious policy gains by holding all 3 houses for 6 years, you gotta be stupid to think suddenly something is going to change.