Recognize this: the Republicans are in a real tough spot on the budget now.
And, judging from the Republican's shrill, hyperpartisan attacks on President Obama's moderate and measured speech on the budget yesterday, the Republican plan is to double down on their strategy of pushing the Ryan budget plan. In doing so, they are just digging themselves a bigger hole-- a hole that I believe could cost them the House in the next election.
Let me explain why the Republican strategy will not succeed this time as their other strategies have succeeded in the recent past, over the fold.