In my 25 years covering Washington I don't recall anything more politically stupid than today's Republicans holding the debt ceiling hostage and passing a bill in the House to privatize Medicare.
In just a few weeks you've managed to antagonize grass-roots seniors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The GOP would be on common ground with many more, if not most, voters had they stuck to calls for less government that detailed something different. Abolish some Cabinet departments. Cut foreign aid. Whatever. Anything other than targeting retirees or creating default panic would have given them political momentum.
Instead, Republicans risk being seen as simply unbalanced by the weight of their right wing and ceding the reasonable ground to President Obama - who can hug the center (or even the center-right) because no one is challenging him from the left for his nomination.
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Democratic VOTERS are the reason the GOP have so much undeserved clout.
Republican voters attack democrats, democrat voters attack democrats and NO ONE attacks the republicans!
Why aren't democrats staging a tea party type, 'mad as hell' attack on the GOP's assault on medicare?
Democratic voters constantly eat their own and give the GOP a free pass. The GOP's over the last two years has been heinous, but the democratic voters staying home in 2010 to 'teach democrats a lesson' is what has led to this mess, make no mistake about that.
Democrats only have the power you give them and every time you take the gavel from Nancy Pelosi, you're giving it to a Boehner.
A house divided against itself cannot stand, and that has always been the democrats problem, now thanks to the GOP's latest bout of craziness, it's america's problem.