The Pendulum Swings

Even Obama has taken up the chorus now.  He did an interview on MTP yesterday where he said kinda straight out that the Repubs are the problem.

"...they have trouble saying yes..."

etc

It'll take some doing, but you'll have to try extra hard to ignore what a dip wad David Gregory is - especially when he gets to the question: "what is it about you, Mr President that you think is so hard to say yes to?".

Maybe it finally starts to stick (ie: the GOP is the main problem), and maybe it finally starts to make the "politically fashionable middle-grounders" feel more comfortable about  thinking so; and then actually saying so in their normal daily discourse.

Re-alignment happens when the big squishy middle starts to move.

Read what Charlie Pierce has to say about it:

Now, after carefully nurturing for 40 years the notion that government is bad, the Republican party has developed within it a legislative core that believes that, if government is bad, then governing is worse, that holds as an article of faith that the only legitimate function of government is to do nothing — loudly, if possible.