Priorities

Via Andrew Sullivan, Partick Ruffini has a prescription:

The GOP's number one priority politically is to set into motion a series of events that will make Obama look more ineffective, partisan, and unpopular than he is today. Playing hard-to-get on the stimulus is one way to do it. And we need to set the stage for a unified and effective Republican opposition that will actually fight from top to bottom.

If you read the full column, Ruffini's solution to the melt-down of the economy is "tax cuts." Sound familiar? That's his sole solution -- oh, the economy's going to recover anyway in a couple of years. (Based on what?) Somehow, the need for government intervention vanished after we decided to hand the banks a trillion dollars, no strings.

I honestly can't think of a single policy recommendation from the Republican side other than "tax cuts." And now that they've lost the White House, all they can do is oppose anything that's actually going to help the people who are footing the bill. I mean, your main objective in a time of economic disaster is to make the other party look bad?

And of course, Harry Reid will let them get away with it.