When You're Losing, Double Down Again

Coming off their embarassing defeat at the hands of Obama on the stimulus package, with the President going out of his way to deal the Republicans in only to have his hand bitten off in a series of petulant tantrums, the GOP has decided to resort to whining like kindergartners.

Top Republican lawmakers Sunday called on President Obama to change his political strategy, arguing that the passage of a massive stimulus bill on a party-line vote showed he has failed to deliver the "change" he promised.

"If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC's "This Week." "I know bipartisanship when I see it."

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Obama was off to "a bad beginning," out of step with the vow of bipartisanship both men made after Obama beat out the Republican presidential nominee for the White House in November.

"It was a bad beginning because it wasn't what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people, that we would sit down together," McCain told CNN's "State of the Union With John King."

We call this working the Village, folks. Nobody outside the beltway is buying this crap, but you'd better believe the insular, clueless Village media is going to eat this up.