Nobody Could Have Predicted Judd Gregg, Etc.

Sully on Gregg:

I have to say even I am a little taken aback by the force of the Republican assault. Even in a downturn as swift and alarming as this one, even after an election that clearly favored one approach over another, even after the most conciliatory efforts by an incoming president in memory, these people have gone to war against the president.

Dude, Sullivan, have you been paying attention for the last eight years? Have you been paying attention for the last eight months?

Josh Marshall too is scratching his head over Gregg.

Guys, this is a group of people who four months ago were calling Barack Obama a traitor, saying he's not an American citizen, saying he's secretly a Muslim extremist, saying just in the last few days that he's planning a Nazi-like takeover of health care IT, guys.

For the last time, this is a group of people willing to do anything --ANYTHING -- to ruin Obama, the economy, and the American people in order to get back in power. If Obama pulls this off, the Democrats own this country for a generation. If he fails, the GOP does. It really is that f'ckin simple, folks.

Everything they do is motivated by scoring political points. They don't care if they lost in 2006 and lost badly in 2008. They plan on getting it all back in 2010 and 2012 if America is reduced to a third-world economy and they can pin it all on Barack and Nancy.

Destroy. Obama.

That is the entire plan in all of its fever-bright glory.

Everything you see the GOP do over the next four years needs to go back to the context of that two word plan.

Remember it.

PS, as I said, can we officially bury bipartisanship and say screw the GOP?