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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (41098)	11/14/2010 2:24:43 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

'Hiram Bush'?

To: Wayners who wrote (41098)	11/14/2010 2:24:58 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Republicans' hard line since winning House could backfire By Mark Z. Barabak Los Angeles Times Posted: 11/13/2010 06:40:54 PM PST Updated: 11/13/2010 08:46:44 PM PST mercurynews.com LOS ANGELES -- No bargaining, no deals, no compromise -- that's the hard-line stance that Republicans have staked in the days since seizing control of the House. Their prescription for the sluggish economy -- lower taxes, huge spending cuts, less regulation and repeal of the sweeping health care law just taking effect -- excites the party's conservative base. But a long and ugly fight with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats, starting with this week's lame-duck session, could end up alienating the large number of Americans more interested in jobs than ideological battles. The midterm vote was "an expression of anger and impatience," said James Thurber, an American University congressional expert. It was not, he said, a sudden burst of affection for the GOP. In fact, exit polls showed Republicans and Democrats were almost equally disliked, with 53 percent of voters viewing Republicans unfavorably and 52 percent unhappy with Democrats. For Republicans on Capitol Hill, the midterm results were a clear-cut mandate for drastic change, starting with a rollback of the Democrats' health care plan. But their reading of the election results is, at the least, a subjective one. Exit polls found that voters were evenly split over whether to repeal the health care law: 48 percent supported the notion while 47 percent said they either wanted to keep the law in place or expand it. More noteworthy, fewer than 2 in 10 cited health care as the most important issue facing the country today (More than 60 percent cited the economy). The most crucial test of the new Republican majority may come in the spring, when the federal government must raise the debt ceiling, or lose its borrowing power. Some tea party faithful would happily force a default and renewed financial crisis to cap Washington's gusher of red ink. But that sort of brinksmanship didn't work so well the last time Republicans tried it, forcing a government shutdown after their 1994 takeover of Congress. Mickey Edwards, a political analyst at the Aspen Institute and a former Republican leader in Congress said Republicans should look for ways to govern and not drive the two parties even further apart, he said. "The American people don't give a damn about the political parties," Edwards said. "What they have is great concerns about their job security and about whether they're going to lose their homes and about whether they can afford to send their kids to (college)."