The Republican strategy, ever since Obama was first elected, was to deliberately cause chaos, gridlock and desolation, which could then be blamed on him. This is no great discovery on my part, its exactly what they publicly said they were going to do. Its not that they are making stupid decisions, this is a plan and a strategy which they are too committed to now to back out of gracefully. The 2012 election didn't turn out for them the way they expected. Only a disaster on BHO's watch can possibly gain them the Presidency in 2016, perhaps never again. And their supremacy in local elections continues to erode as the nation becomes younger, browner, more urban, poorer, and better educated. This is why you can smell their fear. They are running out of Babbitts and Bunkers. We're all Bubbas on this bus now.

I've explained this before, but here's my take on it yet again. After the successful Clinton Presidency, Dubya was supposed to be the new Reagan; instead, he turned out to be the new Hoover. The sole Republican hope now is to try and make sure Obama doesn't become the new Roosevelt. I believe history will remember him as the new Lincoln.

Lincoln's presidency was a failure too, but he preserved the Union and he broke the back of the slavers.