This is just to direct you to this very interesting piece on How Obama Destroyed the Republican Party by Martin Longman on washingtonmonthly.com. Of course, the GOP is destroying itself and it isn’t Obama’s fault, but is intriguing how Obama called them out on it 2010:
So all I’m saying is, we’ve got to close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality. I’m not suggesting that we’re going to agree on everything, whether it’s on health care or energy or what have you, but if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys then don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me.
Watching the ever GOP spiral higher and faster every day has started to remind me of a stock bubble about to bust.