[Hoot Gibson]

This is a fight that Republicans cannot win. Obama clearly has no interest in seeing the country return to prosperity but he was reelected and has nearly unanimous support from the national media. The average American is too poorly educated and/or too apathetic to appreciate the desperate situation that the mushrooming national debt has placed this country. The economy is going to crash, regardless of what is done because four years of Obama and his reelection have us locked on a path of self-destruction. All that is left to be decided is the speed at which we descend down that path.

The best thing for for conservatives to do is to abstain from voting for any deal that would raise taxes, which would allow the RINOs like McCain, Graham, and the other media darlings to either follow suit or cast their lot with Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the other socialists who are calling the shots and allow Obama to get everything that he wants.

Conservatives must not put themselves in position to be blamed for taking the country over the fiscal cliff, but they also must not agree to compromise their core values to seal a deal with the devil. The goal should be to make sure that Obama gets all of the credit for the crash that is coming, because the crash is coming regardless of what Republicans do.

The fact that Democrats refused to vote on Obama's proposal in the U.S. Senate should have triggered an angry reaction from the White House, and it would have - if Obama had any desire to do anything to help the economy. Obama ran for president to create economic chaos and grab as much power as possible for himself and his cronies, and he has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of his socialist sponsors.

It is a shame that Mitch McConnell is not more articulate, because unlike Boehner, he understands exactly what Obama's game plan is. Unfortunately, Boehner has had the numbers to thwart Obama's game plan but he continues to act as if Obama has this nation's best interests at heart - and nothing could be further from the truth. Republicans will be lucky to hold onto their majority in the House if they elect Boehner as Speaker again. I predict that there will be a well-financed Tea Party primary challenger for Boehner in 2014. I am not sure that I have ever seen a worse negotiator in politics.