Reality gobsmacks Capito upside the head

by: Carnacki

Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 20:58:53 PM EST

Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., says extending the payroll tax holiday for only two months is "absolutely ridiculous" and urges leaders in the House and Senate to appoint conferees to negotiate a deal to extend this much needed relief for a full year. Moreover, tax experts agree that a two-month plan isn't workable because it does not leave enough time for businesses to comply which significant changes in tax policy.

So I guess the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and pretty much every other Republican not kowtowing to the Tea Party were wrong to tell the House Republicans like Capito to quit playing games.

But since she's on the right side, she'll stick by her guns, right?

Those guns the House Republicans were sticking to backfired:

By reaching a deal], House Republicans ended five days of increasing tensions that developed after a contentious Saturday conference call in which rank-and-file Republicans rebuffed Boehner's initial efforts to sell them on the Senate deal that passed with bipartisan support on Saturday. After voting down the Senate deal Tuesday, Democrats led by President Obama and a rising chorus of Republicans criticized them for blocking a deal.

The impasse was brokered in part by the Senate's top Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who broke with House GOP leaders on Thursday and called on them to approve the short-term patch in exchange for Senate Democrats formally naming negotiators to finalize a full extension through 2012 when Congress returns in January.

Even many Republicans are coming to the right conclusion that these Republicans in the House, including so-called moderates like Capito who is showing she's a radical partisan, are incapable of governing.