You'd be crying too if you had to deal with teabaggers politicians in Congress.
Sucks to be a House GOPer.
A year to the day since Ohio’s John Boehner and 87 eager freshmen took Washington by storm, House Republicans are bruised from battle, irritated with each other and have lost trust in their leadership.
The president whose agenda they came to Washington to stop is vowing to spend the year scoring political points against Republicans now, and they don’t have much leverage against him.
Now, they’re trying to figure out how to revamp their agenda to find much needed political and policy victories in advance of the November election.
Political victories? Watch freshman Republicans rebel against a long-term deal on the payroll tax extension—something mainstream Republicans would rather pass quickly and move on to firmer ground. They got crushed on the issue in December, and would rather not relive it.
They're also talking about some tax code reform, which is obviously nothing more than yet another smokescreen to give the wealthiest another break. They made very clear, in the payroll tax cut debacle, that they have no interest whatsoever in helping out the middle class (and certainly not the lower class).
In case you need a reminder of where the House led by Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor stand with the American people:
Source: Gallup
For the uninitiated, that's a historical record low. Yes, the GOP-led House is the most unpopular since Gallup started polling in 1958. And several other polls have confirmed the absolute sucktitude of the teabagger-controlled Congress.
And what does that mean for November 2012?
According to a Gallup poll released Friday, more than three quarters of registered voters say most members of Congress deserve to lose their jobs–the highest number since 1993, the year before the political climate resulted in a Republican "tsunami."
House Republicans are in the worst political position of any governing party since the 1994 tsunami. For the first time ever, people want to vote their own congresscritters out.
Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012 – the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids – the most in any election since 1948.
Republicans know they're f'd, and they're fighting about how to right their ship. And given the huge schisms between establishment and teabagger Republicans in the House, this isn't a fight that will be resolved quickly, or quietly.