[TheRealThing]

You could pick any Republican in Washington to put on that pic. After seeing the Dems gloat over the omnibus spending bill and how they pretty much stripped any conservative policies i have come to the conclusion that the republicans are the laughing stock of politics. They are nothing more than Obama's whipping boys and he makes them like it. Republicans have become nothing but cowards afraid to fight for anything they believe in. About time to drop the republicans and just start voting straight independent.

I heard somebody say that spending under the new omnibus has been looking like a jailbreak. Ironically, the sequester did manage to check wild spending liberals to some degree, I say ironically because it was the brainchild of the Obama administration and Boehner took him up on it.

Republicans are afraid to take Obama on, and though we don't know exactly why, it is a bet they've not been willing to make. The media role in the past 7 years cannot be overstated either. Harry Reid held control over the US Senate for those years and anything Dems didn't like got ignored. To make things even worse, the media said nada about the truth of the situation, while collaboratively branding Republicans who did not want to be herded like swine as inflexible obstructionists. Therefore, when the inevitable showdowns came down to government shutdowns, the media laid the blame at the feet of Republicans knowing full well the "change" being foisted upon us was coming 100% from the Dems. One thing is undeniable, the unilateral actions taken so far by Dems have certainly been no joke. ObamaCare, DADT, The Dream Act, forced immigration from Syria no less, and looming on the horizon the specter of gun control.

It sort of feels like Viet Nam all over again. The closer one gets to the end of his tour of duty, the more he worries he might not make it out alive. One year and counting.