"The truth is, Obama infuriates the Republicans simply by waking up as president each morning. Under the rubric of 'taking our country back,' they have challenged his status as an American, they have impugned his faith and they have even questioned his loyalty and patriotism. From the very beginning, they have pursued a conscious strategy of refusing to compromise in any way whatsoever, to the point that they have purged any in their own camp who dare to even suggest such a course." -- Jay Bookman, in his column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As noted by political scientists Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann last weekend, the Rethuglicans are the problem.
(h/t to Daily Kos)
