The more I watch the news and listen to the jack asses on the right spew non-stop bullshit day in and day out in an irrational stream of consciousness nightmare of stupidity, ignorance and plain deception, the less I believe the United States can succeed in the new century. We are doomed to be a waning power as long as these truly brain dead sons of bitches have any power whatsoever. Today, the Senate GOP put yet another demand upon the POTUS by insisting on a balanced budget amendment in order to pass this years budget. This is yet another example of the GOP doing anything it can including risking the total collapse of our economic system just to score political points. Without the power they get from controlling little shit states filled with brush, dirt roads and down and out towns in Red State America, they would be marginalized and no one would give a damn about their inanities. But our constitution allows a small state to have as much power as a big state in the Senate. It gives two votes to each state regardless of the number of citizens they represent or the size of the states economy. Basically, as long as we let five or ten small states hold such power over the rest of us, we will never, ever manage to extricate ourselves from the ideology they spew. We simply cannot govern with this form of a constitution in this day and age. What ends up happening is complete cynicism on the part of intelligent people, students and would be voters because it does not matter one bit if 15 million people in California want X, a Senator from little bitty shit hole North Dakota or Kansas can stop it dead in the tracks.
I am sick to death of these conservatives.