As we find out that Republican business leaders are telling Cantor that revenues must be on the table, and as the market rallies at the thought of tax hikes in a Grand Bargain, the Church of Grover digs in further. What the Republicans need is a leader who can tell them the truth instead of a cable channel dedicated to feeding them ever more extremist propaganda, and a rump of maniacs who never saw an institution they did not want to abolish or take over.
What they need is … Neil Kinnock in 1985. Seriously. Money quote:
I'll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions; they then get pickled into a rigid dogma, a code; and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated, misplaced, irrelevant to the real needs [of real people].
The Dish 