Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Based on this definition, we are ruled by crazy people.
The Republican's psychosis is obvious: after an eight-year test of a vast transfer of wealth from the many of us in the middle & lower classes to the few very comfortable and outright rich, accompanied by almost no regulation of industry, resulting in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Grand Old Party wants to return to power on the same policy prescriptions.

But what about our president? Despite a year of evidence with the Dems accomplishing next to nothing in the face of disciplined party-line voting by the Rs, Obama continues to entertain the diseased notion of bipartisanship.

If the Dems had gone for universal, single-payer health care from the beginning (a position that polled very favorably for months-until Obama bizarrely let his BP (bipartisanship) love trump sanity) and, if they were willing to use every parlimentary manuever available to them, we would have long ago joined civilization.

This is true for every semi-progressive piece of legislation proposed. But, BP love made Obama placate the Blue Dogs while trashing the Progressive Caucus; it made him think that Max Baucus and his Gang of Six would bring the Rs onboard; it prevented him from ripping the Rs and the Conservadems new bodily orifices; and BP love is still his desire and his goto method.

To me, there are three possible interpretations: 1) he's truly delusional, 2) he has the political savvy of a rock, or 3) he's lying through his teeth about everything.

Those of you who have read my other, less-than-favorable evaluations of Obama, will think I'm unequivocally for #3. But, I don't know what the hell is going on with President Hope N. Change.

Certainly, his political savvy comes in third in a race with the Rs. On the other hand, I'd think that a sane person would have figured out the complete nonsense of BP when dealing with the crazy people across the aisle. Finally, lying through his teeth is quick & easy, and makes coherent sense with all the evidence Obushma has given us since he started running for president (1980, if I'm not mistaken).

So, oh OSers, what do you think?