John Kerry

and I agree completely with the last paragraph. Everything/everyone has gone astray since 1980. Not that there weren't far-right Republicans before (as a native of southern California, I pretty much grew up with the wing-nuts in my very own neighborhood), but, since 1980, the far right perspective has somehow become the Conventional Wisdom, rather than the marginalized, out-there, destructive outlook that it really is, or really should be. It seems like I've been fighting these people all my life.

The media and "the people" seem to characterize the perpetual arguments in Congress as "petty". But the thing is, as frustrating as the situation is, and as furious as I am with the House Republicans, the arguments in Congress about issues that really matter to the future of the country.. It's not enough for Congress to stop the fighting. It's about winning this fight.
It's why we have to get Obama re-elected, why we have to take back Congress, and why we can't, simply can't let the Republicans take back the Senate.