It’s a system in which the minority benefits if the government fails, and the minority has the power to ensure failure. It’s insane, and it needs to be changed.

SO I guess he advocates a system more like Hitler tried in Nazi Germany? Or Stalin in the USSR? Or perhaps Mao in China?
Or maybe like the Iran of Ahmadinejad?

These people do not draw from history. They don’t know the Constitution or how a Republic is structured.

I suggest he watch this video:

that every day some unprecedented, historic, transforming, life changing, crisis driven piece of legislation is proposed or passed in D.C. I’m a lot tired of waking to this and Republican leaders are mostly passive and silent.

And here is what you get from the ruling “majority”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/business/11vat.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1260547380-+GcrqUWFrEbN0crcdSbE8Q

To some foes of big government, though, the efficiency of the tax is also its fatal flaw. Conservatives worry that it enables the government to raise money with such little effort that it will encourage Washington to spend even more.

On the other hand, liberals are wary of value-added taxes because they are regressive. Poor people spend a higher portion of their income buying things than the rich, meaning lower-income people would be disproportionately hurt.

Obama-Reid-Pelosi Govt is both out of touch and incompetent.

Incompetent, because they have all the powers to do whatever they want … but they can’t forge a huge alliance to their Socialist – Big Government agenda.

Or may be because they are really OUT-OF-TOUCH. May be the Big Govt/Socialist Fascist Takeover is not really the mandate given to them by the majority of the people. I bet 55-60% of the People are revolting.

Clearly we are a house divided and there is no solution to many of the problems we face at the federal level. The power hungry pols in DC need to devolve power back to the states so the citizens of those states can govern themselves as they see fit. If CA wants to ban drilling for oil and pass gay marriage I say let them If TX want to drill for oil and ban gay marriage I say let them. People and businesses will migrate to states that most closely match their ideological preferences. If CA or MI want to raise taxes, impose oppressive regulation, offer a “public option”, and create welfare states I say let them. If TX, TN, GA, OK want to have zero corporate income taxes, promote individual responsibility I say let them.

It is these conflicting ideologies at the national level that make us ungovernable.

Federalism is the answer. Even Libs should agree. They won’t though because federalism allows for escape. Don’t like CA’s oppressive environment? Move to TX.
The Left seeks to imprison all of us in their version of socialist Utopia from which we can’t escape the taxes, the regulations, and the collective responsibility they seek to impose on us. Their desire to control us exceeds their desire to live as they wish without interference from Conservatives.

The frustration felt by Yglesias et al. is comparable to the frustration felt by conservatives in the 1980s and 1990s when, despite various bing-bang elections, there was no significant rollback of federal spending or programs–and at best just a slowdown in the growth thereof.

Our system is designed to slow down legislative change. Our system of bicameralism, and the staggered elections for the Senate–were both designed to prevent a single big-bang election from resulting in sweeping changes (unlike a Parliamentary system, e.g., the U.K. after the 1945 election).

If, as we all fondly hope, 2010 and/or 2012 gives the GOP a success comparable to what the Dems had in the ’06 and ’08 cycles, be prepared for disappointment unless you recognize that the only significant changes that are likely to be passed will be broad, center (or center-right) policies that have strong majority support in the country.

Indeed, it has only been after a series of “wave” elections that a party has been able to adopt sweeping national changes. These waves have occured rarely: 1860-1868 elections (aided by the departure of some Dems); 1894-1900 (Gop success); 1930-36 elections (where the Dems increased their Congressional numbers four elections in a row); and 1958-1964 (more or less the same, tho the Dems lost a bit of ground in 1960).

So, even if the GOP wins in 2010 and 2012, be prepared for major frustration in 2013, and setbacks in the 2014 elections.