When I was a kid we used to say to each other from time to time, "You'd screw up a soup sandwich." I have no idea what that really means, but we used to say it when someone messed up something that should have been easy.

That's just what Mitch McConnell and the republicans did today when they spoke out against renewing the tax breaks for the average income earner while still speaking out against asking the richest in the country to contribute a little more. Does McConnell really think that this is a winning position for his party? If he does, he either never learned simple math, or he's delusional.

Obama is going to wipe up the court with him and his republicans in November of 2012 if this kind of things continues, which it probably will. And yet, it wasn't that long ago that the republicans had reaped big gains in the 2010 election and everyone was talking about a republican wave. This is screwing up a soup sandwich if I ever saw it.