By Deroy Murdock
Democrats must be drooling. Republicans soon will find themselves on the wrong side of middle-class taxpayers, the unemployed and senior citizens. The Left and Occupy Wall Street will holler about this all year long. And Republican candidates — from presidential, to congressional, to state-level nominees — will be in jeopardy. All of this needlessly reinforces every stereotype of Republicans as cold, cruel and concerned only for the wealthy.
It would be far better for Republicans to put Barack Obama and Harry Reid at loggerheads and force Obama to choose between unions and environmentalists regarding the Keystone XL pipeline. Boehner can do this by abandoning the contraption that he has created, reconvening the House and sending the Democratic Senate its own bill with a simple, two-word change. And to that lightly amended measure, Boehner should attach a card that reads: “Your move, Harry.”