The Exquisite Contrarian

When is opposing the President purely political and without logic?  During the all-important healthcare debate, perhaps.

From McCain: GOP willing to negotiate on health care | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment:

McCain said “we want to negotiate and we want to get something done, but the majority of American people say we want you to start over.”

Of course “the American people” McCain’s referring to are saying this because [...]

We definitely agree.  Outside a slightly petty interaction with Senator McCain, the President handled this meeting extremely well, even working hard to focus on key points of contention while avoiding for the most part any sign of conflict or ego in interactions with the GOP leadership.

“He’s very much what we could call in academic circles [...]

And now he’ll be permanently banished from the GOP for even considering such a horrible act.  I guess he saw the writing on the wall when the entire GOP was outraged after he had the audacity to – gasp – hug the President.
Here’s a story regarding his possible next steps: Will Charlie Crist ditch the GOP?.

Fineman writes:

Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum—which is why God created Roger Ailes. The president of Fox News is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP.

True.  And he’s been the GP chairman for years.  More: Fox News’s [...]

‘Of the public criticism, Steele said his fellow Republicans should “cut it out.”
‘”All I'm saying is 'cut it out,'” Steele told ABC. “If we have party differences that are inside the party, let's deal with them inside the party. You don't see the Democrats running around trying to beat up their national chairman or embarrass [...]