House GOP may have hurt party’s ’12 chances

[azmouse]

Makes me wonder how the Republicans will tolerate the Tea Party nonsense. I can hardly wait until those fools are told to hit the road.

Quote:WASHINGTON - With “tea party”-backed first-termers calling the shots, House Republicans snatched political defeat from the jaws of victory in a year-end showdown over Social Security payroll-tax cuts and jobless benefits.

This time, they pushed the country to the brink — and wound up blinking.

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By spurning a deal that Senate Republicans had embraced, for a two-month extension of tax cuts for 160 million Americans and jobless benefits for millions more, the House wing of the party isolated itself politically and, by some calculations, improved President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects.

Friday brought a humbling surrender, the only realistic alternative despite grumbling from scattered holdouts and Newt Gingrich, courting tea-party support in the race for the presidential nomination.

By then, even allies said Republicans had become vulnerable to Obama’s accusation that they, alone, were threatening a fragile economic recovery and the well-being of the employed and unemployed alike.



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[KonaKane]

Judging from a string of polls alone, the House GOP has shot several large holes in their election chances. All perfectly OK with me, of course. It's just a mystery why they so blindly and forthrightly walked into doing it. They are usually a lot more adept at managing up coming elections.

[jaxx]

If they act up like they did on this, they will be putting themselves in trouble with the voters.
My guess is that they will act up....it's what they do.

[Treestar]

thing does not work so well in real life politics after all. They insist on seeing everything as a 19th century battle. If you just "stand and fight" you will win. Not always in those wars and not necessarily in representative politics.

[azmouse]

(12-26-2011 11:57 AM)KonaKane Wrote:  Judging from a string of polls alone, the House GOP has shot several large holes in their election chances. All perfectly OK with me, of course. It's just a mystery why they so blindly and forthrightly walked into doing it. They are usually a lot more adept at managing up coming elections.

Not all that mysterious when you think about it. It's arrogance, plain and simple. They thought they could do whatever they damned well pleased. They began to believe their own press.
It's nice to see them getting put in their place for once and shown they can't and won't have things all their way.

[KonaKane]

(12-26-2011 01:44 PM)azmouse Wrote:  Not all that mysterious when you think about it. It's arrogance, plain and simple. They thought they could do whatever they damned well pleased. They began to believe their own press.
It's nice to see them getting put in their place for once and shown they can't and won't have things all their way.

I think you nailed it. Also, it appears to be a major miscalculation by the current House Speaker who has allowed some bespectacled idiot annointed by the Tea Party to lead him around by the nostrils. Boehner is positioning to go down as the worst House Speaker in history.