Just listened to the President and the Speaker vilify each other and express nothing new. A plague on both (our) houses.
Assuming nobody wants to bring back Ross Perot’s party, how could a third party arise to give us a way out of this stalemate? Just voting against every incumbent that runs in 2012 won’t help-we’ll just get a new batch of teabaggers, wingnuts and left wing loons. Is there no way to get moderates organized into a party that can actually govern? I’m no historian- has the US gotten a viable 3rd party off the ground in the past?
It’s not the parties that are at fault, it’s the electorate. None of this is hard: raise taxes moderately, close egregious tax loopholes, and means test entitlements. Oh, and stop starting stupid wars.
The Tea Party folks didn’t stage a coup, they were elected by morons.
America does not have more morons per capita than any other industrialised western democracy. There is more to it than that. TYou really think the people of Wisconsin elected their governor to go all in on busting the teacher’s unions? You really think we elected the tea aprty to intentionally bring our country to the brink so they can extort concessions from the Democrats?
Ah, yes…the mostly mythical middle-of-the-road third party. The vast majority of third parties are either to the far right or far left of what we’ve got now. I just don’t see middle-of-the-roaders quitting the party they belong to now to join with a much smaller party with no power whatsoever.