"The GOP didn’t deserve to win"

[applegrove]

The GOP didn’t deserve to win

By Stephen Stromberg at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/05/the-gop-didnt-deserve-to-win/?tid=rssfeed

"SNIP........................

This is the party that has styled its refusal to compromise as a virtue rather than as a pernicious insult to responsible leadership.

Unsurprisingly, exit polls showed little regard for the GOP. It is a measure of midterm voters’ dissatisfaction with the state of the country, President Obama and feckless Democratic candidates that they held their noses and empowered Republicans. The results also fit into a broader trend of red states becoming redder. Yet Republicans — and Democrats — might also take the message that reckless, shortsighted, counterproductive behavior makes for good politics — better, in fact, than having actual results to run on. If fully internalized, that lesson would shut down Congress most of the time.

With President Obama still in office, it is up to Republican leaders to conclude that voters outside the hardcore GOP base did not demand more pettiness in this year’s midterm elections. Among other things, they will have to reign in hectoring partisans such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the architect of the shutdown who, on CNN Tuesday night, argued that Washington can compromise over the next two years — if you define compromise as doing exactly what Republicans want.

And if GOP leaders fail at that, it will be up to voters to give them what they really deserve.




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[randys1]

1. That meeting the night he was elected in 2008 when the treasonous repubs met

this was their win

It is a measure of midterm voters’ dissatisfaction with the state of the country, President Obama and feckless Democratic candidates that they held their noses and empowered Republicans.

To relentlessly oppose him, cause misery everywhere you can, then blame him...

Even though Obama has actually been a success