A reason to be democrat

Will the GOP's bluster about gays and flags drown out the Democrats' call for a new energy policy?

As GOP leaders bluster about gay marriage, flag burning and the "death tax," Democrats are struggling to get a word in edgewise about the bevy of proposals they've been drafting to address more substantive national concerns -- namely soaring gas prices, dependence on oil from an increasingly volatile Middle East, and global warming. These are among the hot-button election-year issues that Republicans are trying to dodge by throwing red meat to their right-wing base.

This current incarnation of republicans (well, most of them it seems, and especially the WH) are not interested in good policy, that we have known for a while, but instead is about the politics of polarization.