ProgressiveLite Beltway Republicans Just Don’t Get It

Hugh Hewitt gets it:

On September 23, all of the House GOP leadership agreed to the “Pledge to America.” A photo op was arranged at the Tart Lumber store in Sterling, Virginia, and the senior leaders of the would-be majority, with their shirt sleeves rolled up, took the pledge and asked America for the majority back. There are at least five provisions of the Pledge that are breached by “the deal.” In September the House GOP promised to:

“Permanently Stop All Job-Killing Tax Hikes” (p. 16)
“Act immediately to Reduce Spending” (p. 21)
“Cut Government Spending to Pre-Stimulus, Pre-Bailout Levels” (p. 21)
“Read the Bill” (p. 33)
“Advance Legislative Issues One at a Time” (p. 33)

“The deal’s” assault on “The Pledge” will make the latter a joke, and instantly impacts the credibility of all future efforts to propose agendas to the electorate.

Don’t condescend to us, GOP.

Don’t tell us it’s different during a lame duck session. The Dems are committing political suicide, but instead of being a good second to their strategic seppuku by standing on principal (and being smart tactically by shutting down the lame duck Dems until the new class is sworn in), you throw down your three aces and fold.

If the GOP is so flippin’ obtuse as to think that the fact that they leading the conservative parade is due to their own wonderfulness, and not because they got in front of an uprising of theretofore more quiet Americans, they are dumber than I ever thought possible.

And believe me, that’s pretty flippin’ dumb.  Like Barbara Boxer dumb.