The GOP has been out of control since the 2 parties switched their separate positions

Abraham Lincoln himself, if alive today, would be a Yellow Dog Democrat.

I'll never tire of repeating that the modern GOP is the biggest danger to freedom in existence, a bunch of truly sociopathic fascists.

President Obama does not hold progressives in contempt at all.

Though he might not be able to operate as far leftward as many of us would like, he knows that many of us really appreciate what he has been able to accomplish. It's actually part of our job to rant about policy we don't agree with (not against him personally) so he can shrug his shoulders at the R's when tactically appropriate and say, "See, nobody can budge 'em, what you're demanding is DOA!"

When he made his last budget proposal, including cuts they've been wanting to effect in a subterranean manner so as to trick the voters, President Obama said more than once, "That's not MY budget!" It was an open challenge to the godforsaken GOP to put up or shut up. Broken-glass GOP faithful will either miss that or deny it, but President Obama was calling the R's bluff, that's all. Like most of his longterm strategies, we'll have to bide our time to see whether it worked. But we should know for sure in 2014, and I'm willing to bet your house that the answer will be affirmative.

The greater the challenge, the more satisfaction when we overcome

And overcome we shall.

We can trade horror stories

I've heard people who swear NM is legally still part of Mexico and that Washington DC is located in the state of Washington. They might not even know what part of the US the state of Washington is located in, but that makes no difference. Showing them a map is a waste of time. They give you a blank stare and repeat what they said just like a robot.

It goes hand in hand with their favorite excuse: "That's what we've always done." Tell them "Then you've always been wrong, too!" and they're likely to chase you down the street or slash your tires or burn your house with or w/o you inside. All in the name of patriotism and 'true' religion, of course.

None of what you said seems to apply to the VAST majority of teabaggers in general

And it's that vast majority who present the problem of coexistence. They don't give a whit about the law or anything else, only what they want and that's deeply affected by race. The RW was hot to qualify their dear fascist Austrian-born Ahnuld for president, and I don't think they give a tinker's damn whether they could get the US Constitution ammended for that or not. ANY white person over ANY non-white. You may be blissfully unaware of just how deep their hatred runs even though some will deny it in public. I'm all too familiar with their sociopathy.

Why does that not surprise me?????

You should take a fast peek at the tiny MidWest town where I retired for financial reasons (dirt cheap). One guy started bragging to me that his girlfriend almost made it through the 11th grade. The old fella generally considered a genius because he'd read a few books in his day was about as ignorant as they come. When they'd start preaching at me, I wouldn't argue but would simply start asking them easy questions which I knew they couldn't answer - such as what's the difference between micro economics and macro economics - until they'd shut up and leave me alone.

There are some nice people here, even a few basically intelligent ones. But 99% sound like rabid teabaggers and there have been days when I almost begged God to put me out of my misery. But after 7 years I've made a few actual friends and know several more congenial acquaintances, so I'm staying. They're gonna love it when a family (from elsewhere) of Catholic Workers inherit this place!

Just one example I don't think I've repeated lately, at least. The matriarch of one quite wealthy family told me how they set their daughter up in a posh Chicago lakeside apartment when she first went off to college, but baby girl 'wisely' came running home after a few weeks because all those people in Chicago scared the tar out of her. And she's never left home again!

Imagine; the world handed to that kid on a platter, limitless horizon ahead, and she runs home to hide under the covers. That's what mama bragged about.

Pssst... I'm a dead shot. Don't let me anywhere near him. Puhleeze!

I'm too pretty and young for prison.

I could recommend a nice vacation spot in the Bermuda Triangle

But only if I got to be tour director to make sure their relocation was a memorable one.

Don't forget, teabaggers don't consider Hawaii part of the United States

Alaska is ok, since it's so heavily white like the baggers.

Hawaii, on the other hand, is full of darker skinned people. I remember hearing many years ago about an incident in the South when a particular company tried to brand itself by hiring Hawaiian-born ladies who wore leis, etc. No grass skirts, though... remember where we're talking about. Anyway, the experiment failed and the new employees were sent back home because, you guessed it - the crackers couldn't tell the difference between them and the focus of their most hated race.

You could probably raise a volunteer army for the job real quick.