“Disbelief” is the word that defines the Republican state of mind in the wake of the 2012 re-election of President Obama. The obvious questions are: “How can Americans have re-elected a president who has presided over an economy where unemployment still hovers near 8 percent?” and “How can Americans have re-elected a president who still doesn’t grasp that his big-government policies are what have blocked our economic recovery?”

The Republican Party needs to take responsibility for this disaster.