It seems like the house Republicans are going take the lion's share of the blame for this. Obviously that was already the case in the MSM, but even now on Fox News you have Bill O'Reilly saying to leading Republicans that they haven't offered up a clear enough compromise, are being unrealistic with what they want to extract from the Democrats and are therefore going to eat it PR-wise. For my part, O'Reilly is right on all counts. They are just making their self-immolation too easy.
Republicans look like they are going to spend several more years in the wilderness, out of both the Whitehouse, the Senate and the House. And they are doing it to themselves.
Long term, I think this is going to be bad for the US as a whole. They don't need more of the primarily socialist policies several years of total Democratic control will bring. But American voters seem unable to support the morons in the Republican party and I can't really blame them.
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