Washington DC Dysfunction is Bipartisan

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Leadership on the Hill is not a virtue like character.
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Both political parties agree the least that you can do for any social problem is to throw money at it.
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Republicans and Democrats are in a foot race to the right when the subject is Vladimir Putin and a mad dash to the left, can’t genuflect fast enough, if the subject is Mohamed or Muslims. Never mind that America has everything in common with Moscow and near nothing in common with Mecca.
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in almost any American election, apathy is the loudest voice in the public square.
Overall, about 35 percent of eligibles voted.
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The mid-term election in any case was not about Republicans, it was about failed leadership, the lack of tactical and strategic vision in Washington.
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Neither party is willing to recognize, nor confront in any meaningful way, the real security challenge of the 21st Century which is a 3rd World War which has already begun, the blitzkrieg of imperial religious fascism.
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Playing the clock for legacy is all that remains for President Obama, a self-defined victim just a half step from ignominy.
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To date, Obama foreign policy is a tale of serial incompetence. Yet the White House still blows in Sunni and now Shia ears as we speak. Cutting Shia Iran some slack on nuclear programs might serve two purposes, Obama legacy and another eye poke for Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s the Chicago way.
With Obama, foreign affairs, as with most of his politics, are personal.
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Desperate deeds and delusional men are constant companions. Or as  the lady used to sing, “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
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Obama was the first world leader to get a Nobel Prize for wishful thinking about peace and arms control.  The president has delivered neither.
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Even a wounded politician is dangerous. Two years is a policy eternity. Weakness, compounded by ego, makes for a perilous mix. Misuse of executive orders puts the rule of law and separation of powers at risk at home.
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Both parties now elevate the Russian to ogre yet haven’t a clue about what to do with Islamic wolves.
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Irredentism seems to be a war of necessity for Islam.
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For the next two years Barack Hussein Obama, as the world’s most visible apologist for Islamism, will still be the most dangerous politician on the planet.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/regime_change_in_america.html

November 17, 2014
Regime Change in America?
By G. Murphy Donovan