Whether you like Ron Paul or not, I know this is true. Politics is similar to a pendilum… no matter how far it swings in one direction, it will swing just as far in the opposite. Or you can use Newtons Law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
As I see it, the only thing that can dig the country out at this point is: Paleo Conservatism, or Libertarianism.
Pick your poison, but the same Republican ideas aint working, and havent for quite a while.