The political discourse in the US for much of the last two years has been about how the Democratic Party under President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have overreached, gone beyond their mandate to enact partisan legislation and abandoned bi-partisan consensus building. But few in the media or among the elite, and aspiring elite have taken time to either understand or explain why a bunch of adults in the opposition party on tax-payer funded salary and benefits would choose to intentionally foil the will of the people as demonstrated in the 2008 election to ensure that their chosen President fails, and that the State fails along side. A party that calculated early on, that ensuring the President does not succeed is far more important than getting the nation out of an economic crises won an election in a landslide – how does that square with voter’s self-interest?
There is a myth perpetuated by the Economic "gurus", there is a correlation between Taxes and Economic activities. But look at the facts:
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