Bush broke the law. President Obama followed it.

[JoePhilly]

28. Agree ...

I think part of the goal is to frustrate the folks in the middle, particularly those who lean left.

Get those folks, who already don't pay much attention, to decide the "yea, the government sucks", and so they just give up. Get them to stay home.

Then, get the nutjobs out in force.

That way, even though the crazy right wingers are aging and dying off, they'll still win enough elections to screw things up even more.

Which makes the government less effective, which shrinks the electorate, and more nut jobs make it in to office again. Its a cycle.

I think that's what happened in 2010. And the goal is to repeat it in 2014.

It doesn't work in Presidential election years anymore, but it can still work in the off years.