As a high/school college debater, I was trained to see that there are two sides to every question. (Which has come in handy as a referee for my two sons.) But lately, when it comes to many political disputes, it's no longer true.
Some of my best friends really are Republicans (I grew up in Orange County, CA, otherwise known as "the red state in the middle of California"), but many of them are in dismay at the hard right turn their party has taken. And even worse, it's become the party of blatant hypocrisy - forcing a government shutdown then complaining about it, politicians who want to shred the safety net from which they themselves benefitted, attacking policies they once suggested, the examples go on and on.
But for the party that led us into two unnecessary wars and blocked every attempt to fund veterans' programs to then holler "foul" about the VA scandal seems even more egregious than their usual shenanigans. So I've begun singing The GOP Hypocrisy Blues (VA Edition) (and this song is likely to have sequels . . . )