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The House GOP leadership have created a fiasco out of a win-win compromise on the payroll tax cut extension – and they did it right before Christmas.

Bravo, GOP establishment morons in Washington.

Even the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page is giving you an #EPICFAIL.

GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.

The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play.

Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he’s spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible.

The House GOP should reconsider their position, pass the two month extension and go home for Christmas.

What a CLUSTER……

A GOP message?

Chris, there has been NO powerful narrative coming out of the Republican debates except that the GOP is full of a bunch of blathering fools who are prone to gaffes. Unfortunately, the Republican brand has been hurt by the lack of quality candidates in the Presidential election cycle.

Can we just speed ahead to 2016, please…..

There is a definite disconnect between the television media and American voters. The REAL torture are the faux GOP debates.

Plus, the televised GOP debates are nothing but “gotcha” stage shows without any real issue discussion. It is time for the Republican Party to set parameters for substantive and definitely fewer debates/discussions among its candidates.

The medium should not be allowed to drive the narrative. Waterboarding indeed….

I, always wait a few hours before writing these post-mortems on the GOP Presidential debates. It is best to do so and let all of the spin sort itself out of the blogosphere and my e-mail box.

So, who won and who lost last night?

WINNERS:

Mitt Romney – under personal attack from Rick Perry the Teflon candidate, while not unscathed, managed to repel Perry and remain the front-runner. Mitt has been crusing the past few debates and he proved he can mix it up with the best of them.

Barack Obama – the President actually looks sane and reasonable as compared to the haranguing group of GOP contenders. The GOP should enforce a poll requirement rule and limit who attends the next few debates and that goes from Rick Santorum to Ron Paul.

LOSERS:

Herman Cain – his 9-9-9 tax was exposed as the double Valued Added Tax that it is. A tax which WOULD increase taxes on the majority of Americans. Rick Perry was correct when he said it won’t fly.

Michele Bachmann – she continued her decent into the third tier with an uninspiring performance, sticking to her talking points to win over religious conservatives in Iowa. Even if Bachmann wins in Iowa, she is done, just like Huckabee in 2008, but probably with less campaign funds. Romney hopes Michele has enough money to last until January 3 and the Iowa Caucuses. This may be a stretch.

Rick Perry – his Texas BULLYING style will not win him any friends in the GOP or with independent voters. Obama’s campaign team should want to run against this stereotypical boisterous “redneck Texan.” His personal attacks on Romney’s illegal alien gardeners were as hypocritical as Perry’s signing of the Texas Dream Act which delivered subsidized college tuition to Texas illegal aliens. While both are weak on illegal immigration, Perry is far the weaker and proved that again last night.

BIGGEST LOSER:

American people – CNN clearly lost control of this debate and at times it was embarrassing. It seemed it was a yell-filled fest with NO adult in the room. American voters have to be asking: is this the best America or the GOP has to offer as an alternative to President Obama?

What a choice in 2012: a “FAILED and INCOMPETENT” President Obama and a group of juvenile acting POSERS.

The reason why conservatives and Tea Party activists are likely to be disappointed in the Republican Presidential nomination process.

Chris, the GOP alignment needs to reverse course —> to the RIGHT!