Here is why we have to break the back of the Republicans now, in preparation for Obama’s second term:
The president, in an interview for TIME’s Person of the Year award, said the economy, immigration, climate change and energy would be at the top of his agenda for the next four years.
The interview took place before the Newtown Massacre, so you can add gun control to the president’s top priorities.
The Republicans oppose Keynesian economics, which means that they won’t vote for any stimulus spending.
The Republicans hate brown people, so they won’t vote for any kind of immigration reform.
The Republicans are in the pockets of Big Oil and Big Coal and Big Gas, so they pretend to disbelieve in climate change and oppose efforts to promote clean and renewable energy.
And the Republicans are totally beholden to the NRA, so they oppose all efforts to curtail the acquisition of lethal arsenals by deranged lunatics.
If the Republicans are not splintered on the rocks of their deluded and extreme agenda now, then the president’s entire second term agenda is dead in the water.