If You’ve Lost Fox News…

Posted on December 21, 2011 at 12:35 pm by JM Ashby

If you’ve lost Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, it’s possible you may have really screwed up.

In an editorial today, the notoriously right-wing Wall Street Journal called the GOP’s strategy “a fiasco,” saying “the GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play.”

On Fox News last night, both the Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes and conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer continued the hand-wringing, with Krauthammer saying that “the Republicans have been entirely outplayed.” “Ultimately, the Republicans will cave,” Krauthammer predicted.

Entirely outplayed by that darn Obama! How could that be!? It’s not like that has already happened a dozen times. Oh wait…

Congressional Republicans enjoyed an approval rating of 20 percent as of this week. How low can they go next week?

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  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

    I can only hope that this fiasco costs Boehner his leadership position. He is just bad, really bad, at his job.

    (and to think that this orange [drunken] moron is only 2 bodies away from the presidency……)

    • mrbrink

      You almost have to wonder if Eric Cantor is smart enough/crazy enough to pull off a leadership coup AND sabotage the leader of the free world.

      Byron Low Tax Looper is alive and well and his name is Eric Cantor.

      • D_C_Wilson

        Eventually, even Boehner has to notice at least one of the knives Cantor has stuck in his back.

      • muselet

        Smart enough, maybe. Crazy enough, yes. Ambitious enough to try, absolutely. Cantor wants to be Speaker so badly he can taste it.

        –alopecia

  • majii

    IMO, both Krauthammer and Hayes should be very pleased because they’ve sat up on their perches at Fox and convinced the Fox viewers that PBO is the worst person in America and is out to “get them” every chance he gets. His every policy is meant to diminish them in some unimaginable way. They gave their consent to the Tea Party organizations, helped to get them elected to Congress, and now they’re reaping the results of their actions. I don’t particularly care whether they like what is happening. I think their primary concern is that the republican brand has been irreparably damaged. My concern is for the millions of Americans who will suffer as a result of their shameless lying, and that includes the dedicated Fox viewers. Robert Reich is saying that it’s bad for America that the GOP is imploding. Yes, it could be bad in the short term, but in the long term, it just might force the leaders to take a good look at what the party has become and force it to become a saner party. I view the GOP as being like an addict that has to reach bottom before it can begin reconstructing itself into a more human entity.

    • D_C_Wilson

      They wanted gridlock and governnment paralysis. Now they’re hand wringing because it’s backfiring on their side politically.

  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    Man, maybe the guy really is playing 12-dimensional chess.

  • Guest

    Think Progress has the latest tea party republic shenanegans from the House of Representatives. Steny Hoyer and Chris Van Hollen attempted to bring the senate compromise bill on the payroll tax holiday to a floor vote this morning. Boehner killed the job ……….. er, I mean the video feed.
    http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/21/393990/speaker-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-when-dems-attempts-to-bring-vote-on-payroll-tax-cut/