We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

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64. "Negotiating with terrorists" is an accurate analogy.

The bottom line is this: Republicans have been fighting dirty for 40 years for one reason, and one reason only==BECAUSE IT WORKS. BECAUSE WE NEVER CALL THEM ON IT. Because we ALWAYS take the 'High Ground'...AND LOSE.
Because nobody has ever STOPPED them from fighting dirty by giving them a taste of their own medicine.

Everyone knows if you negotiate with terrorists, you just invite more terrorism.
Everyone knows if you accommodate kids that are behaving badly, you just encourage more bad behavior.
Everyone knows if you appease a school yard bully, you're only inviting more bullying.

So WHY are we so surprised that when we try to negotiate with Republicans who are acting like political terrorists, their behavior only gets WORSE?

Did we learn NOTHING from the Clinton years? It's important, because they're running exactly the same play! They started out with the idea that Clinton was not legitimate. That somehow only conservative Republicans are ENTITLED to be President, and if somebody is in the White House who is not a conservative Republican they got there dishonestly. And that justifies ANY dishonest tactic used to get rid of them. What did they do?

Tried to block Clinton's stimulus plan using every dirty trick in the book.
Tried to block his Healthcare Reform attempts using every dirty trick in the book.
SHUT DOWN the Government over budget squabbles and hoped the public would blame it on Clinton.
Attempted to INDICT his Attorney General, Janet Reno, by creating a tempest in a teapot (SEVERAL times).
Tried to IMPEACH Clinton for a trumped up reason. (ie-start out by creating a fuss over an inconsequential realestate deal like WHITEWATER, and then just keep on digging, subpoenaing witnesses and documents until you EVENTUALLY find evidence of adultery. Just keep digging until you find something you can use, politically.)

Sound familiar? And how did Clinton respond? For the most part by throwing himself on the floor in a helpless fetal position.
So, should it really surprise us that they're now running exactly the same play against Obama, only with TEN TIMES the INTENSITY?

These are political terrorists. As soon as they started voting and filibustering ideas that THEY originally sponsored, including TAX CUTS and PAYROLL TAX HOLIDAYS just because Obama supported them, it should have been obvious to anybody that this is a political terrorist strategy. POISONING THE WELL. (Do you want to know the REAL reason why Roberts FLIPPED on the conservatives yesterday? Because he didn't want to POISON THE WELL over the Healthcare Mandate. He didn't want to poison the well on what is essentially a Republican healthcare plan written by the Heritage Foundation. If Obamacare is struck down, so is Romneycare in Massachusetts. Roberts knew that if he struck down Obamacare, Romney would be completely helpless on healthcare if/when he was elected.) Wrecking the the economy and the country JUST to defeat the other party. Saying "if WE can't govern, we're not going to let anybody ELSE govern." If you appease that attitude, we're only going to get more and more of it, not less.

If that doesn't work for you, try this one on for size: The American people voted Obama into office, and they've done everything they can to SABOTAGE HIS PRESIDENCY. When foreigners living in other countries deliberately try to destroy the duly elected President and Government of the United States we have no trouble calling them ENEMIES of the United States. Well, that's what these people are.

If Tim Geithner had gone to China to discuss American Bonds and American Debt with them, and then Hugo Chaves had gone to China right after and said "Don't believe a word the U.S. Treasury Secretary says," we'd have no trouble calling him an enemy of the United States. So...how is it different when MARK KIRK does exactly that?

If Vladimir Putin had sabotaged the American credit rating through some KGB subterfuge we'd have no trouble calling him an enemy of America. So how is it different when House Republicans destroy America's credit rating by threatening to DEFAULT on our DEBT, SOULLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF EMBARRASSING OBAMA?

It's NOT different. This is war. Get your inspiration from HENRY V! (And yes, only liberals know that Henry V wasn't 'that fat English guy with six wives.' What of it?)