No, Not A Curse On Both Your Houses

There's a difference here.  And it's REALLY important.

I had a text-conversation with my Mom today (Hi, Mom, thanks for reading).

She seemed to be taking a "throw them all out" attitude towards Congress.

On the one hand, I get that.  Congress is slightly more popular than bedbugs and head lice, while being slightly less popular than Sarah Palin.

But this is not a case of both sides being to blame.  That would be a false equivalency.

The Democrats have given up a TON of ground on this.  The GOP has gotten more or less everything they reasonably wanted from a budgetary standpoint.  Thirty-eight BILLION in spending cuts?  In a recovery?

One side is holding the functions of the US government hostage in order to stage an attack on women's health.  One side.

But I think since their overall plan is to discredit government as a whole, this plays right into the GOP's plan.