A rant...........................

"We need the games to stop. The election did not give Obama and the Democrats a big win that was any mandate to continue the country into a spending oblivion. The Republicans need to discard whoever Norquist is. Nobody elected him to set policy. The danger is that instead of solving a giant problem, Washington is still in the mode of children acting out instead of adults sitting in a room and solving massive problems. Both sides need to get off TV and start to act like adults behind closed doors. You can say whatever you wish about Reagan-O’Neill, or how Lyndon Johnson operated, of Clinton-Gingrich, but they all knew how to get done what needed to get done for the good of the country. The more there is posturing on TV the harder it is to back down and compromise. The Dems seem to think and say so, it is only all about raising taxes on the main payers of tax, and  the Republicans seem to say it is all about not raising rates even a little. If any of these people worked in any of our companies we would fire them for stupidity."
-Joel Ross, as excerpted