Over the last year, it is very often said and assumed that no matter what the Democrats or President proposes - Republicans will be against it. See Senator Mitch McConnell.
Less then a year away from the General Election, the Republicans have seemingly confirmed it.
This should have been such an easy victory for Republicans. The Presidency, maybe even more gains in the House and almost certainly taking control of the Senate.
The trifecta of National Politics.
And then came the teabaggers...........
America is a center - right Country. The more the Republicans have to go further right to apease the far, far right, the furter away from the center - right they go.
House members are being seen as too extreme.
Senate candidates will be seen as filibusterig obstructionists.
And any Presidential candidate will be saddeled with having to explain and justify thier actions as he is assoicated with them.
What a mess the teabaggers have made of what should have been a year long victory lap for Republicans.
'Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment on the failure of House Republican leadership in the payroll-tax debate, and conceded that Republicans have “lost the optics” and should fold on the issue'.
“I think the Wall Street Journal editorial hit it right on the nail, the question now is how do Republicans get out of it,” Rove told Fox News on Wednesday'.
From : http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/200877-rove-says-republicans-should-fold-in-tax-debate
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'DES MOINES, Iowa – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in'.
From : http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/12/21/gingrich-to-house-gop-give-in-on-payroll-tax/
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'Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday that Republicans are losing the public-relations battle over a payroll tax cut extension and should find a way to extend the tax holiday and move on'.
"Are Republicans getting killed now in public opinion? There's no question," Corker said Wednesday on CNBC'.
From : http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/200705-sen-corker-says-gopers-need-to-pass-payroll-extension-and-move-on
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'GOP Sen. Scott Brown ripped into House Republicans on Tuesday after Speaker John Boehner vowed that his caucus would reject the short-term payroll tax cut extension that nearly 90 percent of senators voted for over the weekend'.
“The House Republicans’ plan to scuttle the deal to help middle-class families is irresponsible and wrong,” Brown said in a statement'.
From : http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2011/12/brown-blasts-house-gop-on-payroll-tax-cut-108035.html
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The Wall Street Journal -
'GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest'.
'The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play'.
'After a year of the tea party House, Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats have had to make no major policy concessions beyond extending the Bush tax rates for two years. Mr. Obama is in a stronger re-election position today than he was a year ago, and the chances of Mr. McConnell becoming Majority Leader in 2013 are declining'.
From : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577110573867064702.html
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