Leedesert, quite simply, it is becomming much more difficult to differentiate between a Republican and a Democrat, except for the R or D after their names. The GOP leaders of the House and Senate have reportedly said that they would like to pass some meeaningful gun control legislation before the end of the legislative year. The same churl that the Demo's are shooting out of their vomitous mouths.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that a Republican is only slightly less inclined to tax the living hell out of me.
BTW, if you do a little digging into the political history of some of the Republican bum munchers currently in the House and Senate, you'll find that they were, at one time, raging Democrats.
Sadly, I've come to realize that many Replicans are basically liberal and are too afraid, as yet, to come out of the closet to declare themselves as such.