The GOP and the Big Three

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The Republicans have made their bed; now let them lie in it. As a commenter on TPM states,

[T]he political fallout from this maneuver ... means that the GOP has not only written off New England and the Mid-Atlantic, but the Midwest, and is hunkering down in its Dixie and Plains base. The GOP used to consider Indiana as a given, Ohio as a must, and Michigan as a like-to-have. Now all three are gone, along with Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Last time I checked, 120 electoral votes won't win many presidential elections.

Molly I. at Eschaton gives the short take on the bailout failure (Republicans to Detroit: If only you could figure out a way to pay your executives and not your workers, we might help you.), and Bob Reich explains the Republicans' stance in more detail.

Of course, as the owner of two Hondas, I have to admit to a certain ambivalence about all of this.