By every measure, the GOP policies over the last 40 years represent a danger to US national security. The GOP who advocate these policies are more dangerous than Middle East terrorists, Russian nuclear weapons or Chinese armies. In every case, GOP policies have increased those threats while doing more harm to US than any of them.
1. Economic policies of deficits and debt that have pushed US from a Debt/GDP ration of 30% to 100% over the last 40 years.
2. Energy policies that:
A. Increased US imports of oil damaging US economy.
B. Increased military and terrorist threats to US.
C. Cost $10T in wasted military costs in oil wars in Middle East that increased
rather than decreased threats to US and damaged US economy.
D. Failure to build a green economy, 20M jobs
E. Climate change.
3. Health care policies that bankrupt US economy, kill US citizens, make US economy
uncompetitive where adoption of a European system would save 40,000 lives per
yr.cuts yearly costs by $800B, provide 100% care and the better health care results
achieved in Europe.
4. Financial policies that fail to regulate Wall St and banks who have destroyed US citizens retirement savings with fraudulent schemes, destroyed US industry with predatory practices and have resulted in $3T in US taxpayers money to keep the corrupt banks and Wall St firms open while US citizens go bankrupt in record numbers as a direct result of failed financial regulation by US government.
5. Attacking US democracy by advocating a religion based government, restricting voting rights and pushing for ascendancy of money over votes to determine elections.
By every measure, the GOP is attacking the US militarily, economically, politically. If GOP was a foreign power, we would declare war on them for the damage they have done to the US in their attacks.
This is why Obama's appeasement of the GOP is wrong. We need Churchill not Chamberlain. We need a leader who will fight for what is right in the US not compromise with and appease those who proven to be the enemies of the US.
Obama will not even advocate the right policies for the US for fear of the disapproval of the US GOP enemies. Or worse, Obama does not know or believe in the right policies for the US. The result in the same, appeasement with the US GOP enemies and further destruction of the US. No better illustration than the phony "debt crisis" of Obama and GOP that has resulted in further damage to US economy. Phony "problems" and phony "solutions" and US problems get worse.