> so right wing they can't even get anything passed by their own party.

I do have to say this part has amused me the most, as a registered independent who leans heavily socially liberal (I'm more conservative when it comes to economic issues - but more in the sense that I want money going to things that advance the species, rather than destroy it).

I certainly expected after the last election to see a steamroller of conservative GOP legislation being passed left and right. Instead, we got a bunch of EOs - and a stalled Congress. I was not expecting that.

Not that I like it, mind you...

> Not that I like it, mind you.

I think it is great. If we could stick the Senate and the House onto vacation for 364 days a year the country would be able to adjust quite quickly.

It's not that it's right wing - it's the general incompetence that is slowing progresss. The scary thing, as an outside observer, would be a vaguely competent extreme right wing president, such as the current VP.