WSJ editorial: Boehner and McConnell handing Obama relection

Which is exactly what the Tea Party-types controlling the House GOP want. Their rallying cry is that government is the problem, that it doesn't work. This kind of dysfunction proves their argument, or so they think anyway.

 

Democrats need to step up their game beyond the tired lump of coal cliches. Invoking the Jelly of the Month Club will really help this resonate with the 99%.

 

Grover can take his pet Keystone project and shove it up his accomodating ass.

 

I disagree. That would be Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney who are taking care of that.

 

[quote author=suburbia]Looks like the GOP out-foxed the Democrats yet again.

Rather than vote simply to reject the Senate's extension bill, House Republicans used a parliamentary maneuver to both reject the bill and simultaneously refer it to a conference committee with the Senate. The goal of this maneuver is two-fold: to give those opposed to extending the payroll tax cut political cover and put the ball back in the Democrats' court. Now, if the Senate Democrats don't cave to the House GOP's demands, the theory goes, Democrats can get blamed for the tax cuts expiring.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/house-gop-coalesces-around-plan-to-reject-bipartisan-payroll-tax-compromise.php

Now let's see if Harry Reid sticks to his guns, or if he and the Democrats cave yet again to be "the adults in the room." My money is on the latter.[/quote]

Good call, Amalgam. You really should stop trying your hand at politics. You're so indescribably bad at it.

 

Oh, in case people are wondering, Boehner and House Republicans completely and totally caved.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/breaking-house-republicans-cave-agree-to-two-month-payroll-tax-cut.php

 

Nicely setting up an election year in which it's going to be the GOP vs. The Middle Class over and over and over again.

 

If Obama is re-elected next year, this could be the week we look back upon as the week it happened. Between the GOP's fighting to raise taxes on the Middle Class, and the collapse of Newt thus setting up the party's second (or third or fourth?) choice as nominee, and the increasing consumer confidence figures and lowered unemployment figures, it's been a great week for the Hawai'i bound President.

 

They realized they were getting fucking annihilated in the COPO and wanted to throw some water on the fire before it went full Hindenburg on them.

It is what it is.

 

It is interesting that there is a serious argument being made among intensely political blogs that all this means is that the Democrats have avoided surrender so that they can lose even worse in February, and that it is lefties who are making it. These people (some of whom are good writers) aren't political, they're psychological. They NEED to feel they're on the losing side. They appear to have no advice for Democrats holding office but to resign. That way they could lose AND be pure.

 

Is the Keystone pipeline decision part of the continued negotiations, or was that rider just to get a deadline for a separate decision? If it's still part, the Dems should say no way in hell. It's a win for them no matter what: either the pipeline doesn't get its hurried approval, or the GOP rejects the whole bill and again is the group that raised taxes on the 99 percent.