Obstructionism is undoubtedly the Republican party's MO right now. Cantor is openly modeling himself after Newt Gingrich (I'd skip divorcing a woman going through chemo) and Michael Steele thinks it's just peachy that the House Republicans stood lock-step against the stimulus. They're not going to be able to block it, but come 2010 they'll be the ideologically pure opposition that had "no part" of the ongoing mess, and voters will flock to them, just as voters flocked to Republicans in 1993 despite George H.W. Bush's recession.
Right.
Just as Clinton supporters forgot about one key detail during the 2008 Democratic primary when claiming that "Clinton is magic! Her husband wins red states!", so too have the Republicans forgotten what legitimized their obstruction in 1993. Ross Perot. The Texas billionaire (seriously - that's the way he was referred to during the campaign!) won over 20% in numerous Western states that Clinton won by plurality, not majority. Clinton won the election with only 43% of the vote! Republicans were able to (honestly) say that a majority of Americans voted against the president, and thus he didn't have a mandate.
And now they keeping digging, hoping they'll hit oil before voters kick the dirt at the top of the hole back down in, burying them and their sorry fanaticism.
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