It should be obvious to most by now that the GOP has embraced extremist tactics and given up on so-called moderate approaches. McConnell wants to make Obama a one-term president and the others want to shut the government down to make political points.

The Greedy Old Party is defending corporate America over making life better for American citizens. They would like to have tax cuts for the wealthy (over a trillion dollars) and hide behind the fear of a deficit which is really hypocritical because under a Republican Administration as Bush showed us, the deficit will increase. Clinton brought it down.
Bush repealed that.

This is an unworkable strategy for the Republicans. The scenario will emanate in the Tea Partiers eventually turning against Republicans (if we assume that the Tea Partiers really are the Americans they say they are). "I'm mad as hell" could equally be applied to Republicans as the US economy sinks lower into unemployment and the economy crashes (which it will if we continue along the lines that the Republicans want).

What we need is a WPA or a CCC to put people to work building infrastructure and tax and mortgage relief for underwater homes. Republicans would oppose this. They would call it "socialist" without a clue as to what socialism really is. FDR was not a socialist but the name is used as a smear tactic for political gain.

Don't count on Republicans to curb expenditures incurred by the Pentagon and the Military Industrial Complex either. They are too tied in to these corporate leaches.

Over the long haul, though, the Republican agenda is not workable and when things get really bad (which they will if Republicans have their way), the public will be forced into waking up and smelling the bread lines.