Finally, Democrats win a Washington stand off. Republicans cave on the payroll tax cut.
Next move: the sane Republicans need to finally stand up against the Tea Party. It’s time to stop being afraid of a faction of your party that is making you look and behave like imbeciles; internal fighting and nearly slap-happy with power. To the Tea Party Republicans: saying no all the time is NOT a good management technique. Playing “the Big Man” like you just got your driver’s license is NOT a good negotiation technique. Now that the rest of the country is seeing your teenager behavior over and over again, they’re beginning to learn, and all you’re going to get are more scenes like today when you force the Speaker of the House to give in and give sorry speeches like this one.
Speaker… “Sometimes it’s difficult to do the right thing.”
Uh huh. Especially when you have the Tea Party Caucus running around like a bunch of Freshmen in high school who stole the keys to their big sister’s car. As usual he skirted all the questions. But I am starting to feel bad for the Speaker of the House; his is a really hard job to wrangle the impossible to manage Republican congress.
Tail between his legs.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-republicans-cave-payroll-tax-cuts-extension-obama/story?id=15212988
Sadly, you can bet that all we’ll hear from Cantor is more off-the-wall comments about how great he is and how wonderfully smart and responsible his part is.
Really? Eric… really? Don’t you get the feeling that maybe the country is starting to realize what a complete and total mess it is, and that it’s NOT the President’s fault that Congress can’t even agree with its own ideas?
And in two months, we get to have Republicans fall all over themselves once again trying to claim they love tax cuts but refusing to do it for the regular, every day person in this country.
