John Boehner will resign from Congress

In reality, there is no GOP. It's just a loose coalition of fringe factions -- social and financial conservatives, libertarians, people who call themselves libertarians because GUNS and NO TAXES, disaffected, anti-politics people, racists, neocons, militia members. If you went to a Tea Party gathering you wouldn't be able to get the assembled clowns to agree on what the Tea Party stands for. This is why, despite majorities in both houses, the GOP has no legislative agenda. This is why Boehner quit.

 

Yeah, it's kind of a mess. The Dems also have a similar split going on though, on a smaller scale, at least in my state. We have progressive Dems, who tend to be more for alternative energy regardless of the cost and who are completely for marriage equality, but there are also entrenched, Catholic Dems (for lack of a better word) who skew more toward pro-life and the sanctity of marriage. In other countries, I believe there are more established, viable parties than two, so you get a wider catering, whereas in the U.S. most everything gets clumped into one of the two major parties.

 

Carson.

 

Where did you copy-and-paste that from?

 

Duverger's law.

 

You didn't really type this with a straight face, did you? No religious group has done more to try to push its faith on the rest of the country than Christians. And it has been a few pages and you still haven't produced names of Muslims pushing to establish a national religion in the United States.

 

And I don't get that. That should work both ways, shouldn't it? The Republicans are ready to pass a budget to keep the government running but the Democrats are blocking it. Can't they legitimately say, "Really? The Democrats are willing to shut down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood? We could have this done today."

 

Planned Parenthood has received federal funding since 1970. Why all of a sudden the panicky rush to end the funding? The videos? Which have been deliberately edited to distort what was said?

 

This, and the debt ceiling, and every other fake issue the GOP has created has given the Democrats the high ground. In this case more than 70 percent of people believe Planned Parenthood should continue to receive funding.

 

None.