No, the GOP is acting very foolish.
In the midst of a greater recession, they keep allowing themselves to be defined as the party of the rich against the poor. They ran Romney, who was defined as a mega rich man, and lost partially because of that perception.
Change the debate. Move it to non welfare, non social security spending. We, as conservatives, are constantly told to sacrifice core principles in order to “win”. Yet the GOP is going to the mattresses on a losing issue, claiming principle. Most people do not, and will not, support keeping the tax cuts on those making over $400K. Call it ignorance, foolishness, or greed, but that is what it is.
Bohener and the GOP have allowed themselves to be played. The next step will be Obama agreeing to Plan B, if the House agrees to a gun ban. And I fear that the GOP and Bohener will go ahead and do it.
Unfort. they (again) using the wrong battle techniques.
They SHOULD, IMHO, be shouting left/right 24/7: “EVERY American deserves to keep as much as their money as possible, as the Senate, led by Henry Reid, has not even passed a budget in over 4 years. With a yearly deficit of 1.5TRILLION dollars, the Fed. gov’t is not being a good steward of the People’s money. NOTHING will pass the house until a balanced budget, that starts reducing the deficit this year, is passed.”
Then walk away until the New Year. WHY is this so hard?!
post 45 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2970829/posts?page=45#45 is right on...
the fact that the rin-o-p is ‘raising’ taxes is a loser of a starting point, and doomed to fail...