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Subscribe to RSSThe Washington Post: “House Republicans faced mounting pressure Wednesday from critics inside and outside Congress who worry that their standoff with President Obama over whether to extend a payroll tax cut could do lasting damage to the GOP.”
“Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who is seeking the party’s presidential nomination, warned that the showdown could end badly for Republicans, citing his own experience in losing the political battle to President Bill Clinton during the 1996 government shutdown. ‘Incumbent presidents have enormous advantages. And I think what Republicans ought to do is what’s right for America. They ought to do it calmly and pleasantly and happily,’ Gingrich said.”
“Sen. John McCain says Congress' failure to reach agreement on legislation extending a payroll tax cut for working Americans ‘hurts the Republican Party,’” he said on CBS’s Early Show, per AP. “The GOP's 2008 presidential nominee says his party made a mistake in voting down the Senate-passed version of a bill that would have kept the current payroll tax relief intact for at least two more months.”
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The GOP/Tea Party will have to eat crow, and by this time next week they will have realized that their political future is in jeopardy, and cave in. When you lose the support of the WSJ, you've got problems with hair on them.
Boehner, on the other hand, is in deep doo-doo and will be forced out as
WeeperSpeaker of the House within 60 days. Creepy Cantor wants the job so bad, he can smell it, and will shank 'ol Johnny Boy in the neck just to get it.Dunno that you're right about Boehner's fate and dunno that it means anything if you are. It'd just be rearranging the deck chairs on the "Titanic". The Republicans sold their souls to the Tea Party, payment's coming due and Daniel Webster ain't around to get them off the hook!
Boehner saying that the Senate needed to come back to Washington to get this work done was idiotic. The Senate already did their work by passing the 2-month extension! I'm afraid he's really going to have something to cry about pretty soon...
Last night I was watching the evening news and I saw a clip of beaming Republicans, laughing while walking through the halls of Congress, while the voice over report was that they are letting the middleclass tax cut expire. A family making $50,000 a year will be dinged $1,000 from their paycheck thanks to House Republicans. How out of touch with America has the GOP become? I thought their core value was "low taxes?" Lasting damage to the GOP? Oh, yeah. It's amazing to me the Republicans are so tone deaf. Even if they correct this error before the New Year, that clip of the laughing GOP sticking it to the middleclass will haunt them.
Boehner ought to look up "hubris" in the dictionary. I'll bet it has his picture beside it.
This all comes from the Republicans being willing to do anything, anything at all, to get back into power. The fate of the nation is nothing to them if it stands in the way of power.