GOP Voters Not Interested in Bipartisanship

There are lessons to be learned here:

A political memo by a GOP consultant this week said a takeover of the House is all but assured, but warned that voters are “extremely cranky” and that House Republicans should keep in mind that how they behave in the majority will play a big role in whether President Obama gets reelected or not.

“As they begin to govern, Republicans will need to keep in mind that their favorability is under 50 percent,” wrote Sara Taylor Fagen, a former White House political director for President George W. Bush. “The electorate is extremely cranky and will likely remain this way for some time.”

To maintain control of the House, Fagen wrote, a Republican majority must realize that voters “will be slow to trust and quick to discard people they perceive as typical politicians.”

And, Fagen said, a House Republican majority will need to navigate carefully between a crafty White House – which will be eager to hand them responsibility for the economy and highlight any unwillingness to compromise – and the conservative grassroots, which is in no mood for bipartisan cooperation.

That last highlighted line is key. Some Republicans, like Rep. Darryl Issa during an interview with Rush Limbaugh, are talking about how they're going to make the House a happier place to be by "opening up the process" and such. Rush ripped him a new one about how voters don't care about process, they care about stopping the Obama agenda. Period. We don't want Republicans and Democrats holding hands and singing Kum Bah Ya, we want the GOP to aggressively stop the Democrat agenda and if it means making a lot of Dems and their handmaidens in the press angry, so be it.

There's nothing wrong with using the Dems own tactics against them.

We also don't want hear about how we can't repeal Obamacare because Obama would just veto the bill.  So what?  Introduce the bill, pass it, and make him veto it.  Don't refuse to do it just because it won't get off his desk.  Voters want to see action or they'll primary every GOP incumbent who didn't move fast enough and put somebody else in there.

You've been warned.