Both Bush and Obama ran on being uniters. Both forgot to check with their own party!

The current debacle known as the effort to reform health care, is demonstrating how little respect the party in power has for its own leader.

Not that it was much different under the Bush administration. In the end, when the global economy needed emergency intervention, most, if not all republicans voted against the stimulus bill and rescuing the auto industry, as Bush was on the other side of the attitude.

Obama is not doing any better. His party, (why did I just say "his") barely mustered the needed votes to pass a health care reform bill in each house.

Why is this happening? Maybe because the time of the two party system is fading. The process is still there, but not much else. Each party selects a candidate, supports him/her, even vehemently, and then, once elected, go about their individual business completely divorced from the agenda of their just elected leader.

The fact that the losing party stays together means nothing. That is the definition of loosers. But for the winners to act so dysfunctional, is bizzar.

But wait, they will all come together for the 2010 elections, just like a dysfunctional family thinks that getting together over the holidays will change anything.

And then you have the independents. Who actually have their own party. Is that not an oxymoran? Indepent thinkers, who select one independent thinker to represent all other independent thinkers, who are independent because they dont want to belong to a group that thinks alike! What are they uniting?

And then, there is Palin. What party will she form. What group will she unite.