A POINT TO REMEMBER. With respect to the “deal” that Republicans cut last December with the Obama administration regarding the extension of the so-called Bush tax cuts, Hugh Hewitt wrote:

What the D.C. GOP failed to grasp and what is now the source of anger among its supporters ... is that for the past two years the D.C. GOP has been complaining bitterly and appropriately about being excluded from the process of governing. No sooner does the D.C. GOP get welcomed into the governing councils of the Beltway but they in turn exclude the people who sent them there, and not just the scores of newly elected representatives and senators who were not consulted on this "deal," but the millions of people who worked and contributed to the victory of November 2.

If the GOP intends to wield their new power the way that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid did over the past two years, they will be shocked at how quickly the public deserts them. Springing this deal on their new colleagues and their supporters without any opportunity to comment on it is the GOP version of refusing to attend townhall meetings.

We must remind the Republican establishment early, often, and vigorously that they work for us and we can - and will - discard them if they don’t.