Look at the behavior of the GOP over the last eight years:
- Activists shoving absolutist "pledges" in the face of their candidates, threatening to "primary" anyone who didn't sign them
- Attacking any Republican who showed any moderation as a RINO
- Loudly declaring any hint of cooperation with Democrats as unacceptable
- Screaming "socialism" and/or "communism" at any number of existing government programs, wanting to shut down any number of departments
- Voting as a bloc against virtually any Democrat initiative
The public sees this. They don't see the Democrats doing this. It's not difficult to characterize that behavior as obstructionist.
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There has never been activist before, in either party,? really? I never realize that. Seems to me I remember a very successful contract with America not so many years ago. You and me ***** about what they are doing in WH, we do it everyday. Yet when people want to hold their officials accountable you seem to have a problem with them doing so? If an elected official is NOT representing what the people want, what do you suppose they should be threatened with?
The whole political spectrum has swung left. What is considered a moderate today was a flaming liberal not too long ago. What you are proposing is that the right swing even more left then they already have. The country is going into the dumpster and it isn't because the right has won any recent victories. The left wing has won almost everything but the right still gets the blame. BS.
We want them to vote against bad democrat initiatives. We wanted them to vote no for Obamacare. It is not like Congress has not passed laws. They are passing them at about the same rate as any other congress. It is just that some of the things that the democrats want to do is so radical we want them to vote against them in a block. That said, I can't think of any initiative that the democrats wanted they didn't get. Maybe not lock stock and barrel but they got almost everything they wanted.