Orange Julius Versus Orange Goop

If you're wondering why the GOP has been mostly silent on the BP oil spill, it's because they're too busy being the Party of No and proud of it.

For Boehner, being called the “Party of No” isn’t a regrettable invective. It is a strategy aimed at highlighting the contrast between those running things and those who want to run things. That deafening silence you hear from Republicans about the gulf oil spill? All the better for Americans to hear the glubglubglub of Democrats and the administration going down the drain.

And if you have any illusions about what a GOP congress would mean, it's shutdown time:

Boehner is reluctant to speculate about November, when 100 seats will be in play. If things should go bump on election night -- and should Boehner replace Pelosi as speaker -- expect to see lots of blood on the floor. First to get the hatchet would be health-care reform, which Republicans would seek to replace with "common sense" measures to reduce insurance costs and secure jobs. Other priorities would include line-by-line budget cuts, entitlement reform and restoration of the integrity of the House, which Boehner says has been damaged by previous speakers' emphasis on partisan gains. "That's why the Congress of the United States is broken and I aim to fix it." 

Defunding programs right in the middle of what will most likely be a double-dip recession.  That'll help!  Glad to see the Republicans have so many solutions to the issues that we face:  the oil in the Gulf, the Koreas on verge of war, Turkey and Israel going at it, a stumbling economy, and the GOP House leader's plan is to say "Well, we're not in charge!  Vote for us!"

How gratifying.