First of all the wingnut label is a little unfair and over time I will refer to them as Rush followers or Beck followers and there not stupid, its low information voters... big difference.
Teabaggers in my mind are nothing but the KKK without the hoods and robes and I don't say that in a homophobic sense. That group in my opinion deserves all the scorn they get.
You are right concerning bi-partisan support of legislation. What you don't consider however is that the GOP made a decision that they were not going to support anything the Dems and Obama put out there [[ the waterloo strategy). That calculated political decison made bi-partisan support a non-starter. The political environment when those other major bills where passed was certainly different and allowed for some bi-partisan support. And the GOP continues that kind of strategy at the "peril" of there party being relevant.
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