Every Congressman that took part in this seditious act should be censured on the floor of the House.

[Hortensis]

24. Oh, yes, to all. Except the "Charlie Brown" image of Democratic

leaders who never learned how vicious their colleagues could be, in spite of their taking almost literally every opportunity to insult, abuse, and inconvenience them. By the end of Clinton's administration, nothing was ever too mean, dishonorable, or small for them. This was a constantly hostile working environment.

Every time they were the majority party since the early '90s, their power expanded exponentially and they'd do everything they could to damage and tear down government institutions, to deliberately run the nation into debt with transfers of wealth to the wealthy, usually impede anything Democrats wanted to do because it was us, and to instill corruption; and of course their ability to deliver spiteful personal hurts and insults up close and personal to their Democratic colleagues also increased exponentially.

We're the ones who had no idea just how bad they'd become, and they just kept getting worse.

We all regret the lost opportunities in the beginning of Obama's administration, but I think he was very right to try to bring the nation together, given what was at stake. What they'd already become was a real danger to our nation, and his revolutionary election by a large majority of American voters MIGHT have been an inflection point for the nation, changing the trajectory of the right's decline into implacable corruption and enmity toward everything Democrat and liberal, and against democracy itself. We now know it accelerated it all, but he had to try. And he and the rest of his advisers didn't have our hindsight.