Republican civil war continues: Chris Cristie

[Polaris]

I am also glad for the Progressives in the Democratic Party who are attacking Obama on his unacceptable appeasements towards the Republicans, K Street, and Wall Street.

I'm not thrilled with it, but I also understand that when our political system forces you to negotiate with crazies, you're forced to either accomplish nothing or do some things you don't really want to. Another part of me wonders if we would have been better off had we simply refused to argue with them and just went over the fiscal cliff.

And, yes, the Republican part of just 20 years ago is nothing like what we have now. I mean, the fuckin' Democrats are actually able to quote Ronald Reagan in defense of their policies!

Well Reagan was not nearly as conservative as the GOP made him out to be, but no one really cared to challenge that notion with the Cold War getting tense again.

[Minimalist]

Reagan would have trouble being a republicunt these days. He was, after all, a serial tax raiser!

See what is happening to the 80+ republicans who voted for the fiscal cliff plan.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2013010...2DSG4.html

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting this week to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives.

It was the first time in two decades that a significant number of Republicans voted for a tax increase; 33 Senate Republicans did so and 85 House members who broke with their GOP majority to support the bill that avoided the nation going over the so-called fiscal cliff but that also raises taxes on upper incomes.

"The ones that voted for it, I think they will rue the day," Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby proclaimed after opposing the bill. And Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, put it this way: "It's not too early to be looking at 2014. I think there are going to be a lot of primary challenges. People are fed up."

And so it goes...