Sounds like the current administration to me.

Is the GOP trying to increase the unemployment roles by idling the joke writers across America? Have they become so caught up in their own parallel universe that they don't think the rest of us comprehend the english language nor comprehend terms being misused intentionally by those whose practices DEFINED the very term they use derisively against the current Administration?

For all the lambasting the Democratic Party has taken since the rise of the Reagan Revolution, I've never seen a party fall so fast and so far while daily doubling-down on even more policies running counter to where the American people currently lie. I guess it never occurs to them that when the "right-track/wrong-track" numbers have tripled toward the good that complaining about the President actually implimenting the policies which got him elected isn't quite a slam on either him nor on liberalism. The country has left the GOP and it doesn't look to be coming back anytime soon particularly when the GOP hasn't forwarded a decent counterplan to anything which US families are trying to deal with in order to restore stability to our lives and to our economy so that it works for everyone, not just the players on Wall Street.

Sounds like the current administration to me.

It would to you. Thanks for proving my point.

Take off your rose colored glasses princess.

I would argue that America started on the road to Banana Republic when Nixon in 1971 took us off the gold standard. From then on there was no limit to government spending.

We crossed the Rubicon into Banana Republic when Bush invaded Iraq - and got away with it. As Bush famously proclaimed, "the Constitution is just a damn piece of paper." Or something to that effect.

There is no more Constitutional rule of law; the lawmakers are the law. That, in my opinion, is what defines a Banana Republic.

Obama is continuing that tradition.