I've Said It Before…

By Scott Coulter I read today that the GOP is pretty much set to sue Obama. Now, I don't want to get into the politics of that here — let's not get into who did what, who's right, who's wrong, or any of that. Read any comments section in any online paper and you see how quickly things devolve to vitriol, mudslinging, name-calling, and personal attacks. Let's just say this: When one branch of our government is literally SUING the leader of the other party, the system has broken. It isn't "in trouble," it isn't "off balance," it's broken. What happened? We've never agreed on everything, but we were never SUPPOSED to agree on everything. That's why our country was founded as a democracy, where differing opinions are intentionally forced to confront one another. But there's a second part of that equation that we seem to have completely and totally lost — once those differing opinions are forced to confront one another, we're supposed to work those differences out like rational adults! And I can't remember the last time I heard ANY news out of our political system and thought to myself, "well, that was some good, rational, constructive problem-solving!" Can you? Can any of us? I think we've lost our ability to hold a long view of life. We see some political swing and decide the end of the world is here and everything is lost. And this isn't something only one political persuasion is guilty of. Many on the left talked earnestly about moving to Canada when Bush's secon...
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