What do you think of the GOP "insurgency"?

I have to admit I’m a bit shocked, given the degree of the economic crisis unfolding around us, that the Republican Party has chosen to close ranks and declare war on President Obama and the majority Democrats. Texas Congressman Pete Sessions likened the strategy to a jihadist “insurgency”. Rush himself wants the stimulus package “and everything else [Obama’s] doing to fail”.

Really? Hundreds of thousands of people are without jobs – quite literally scared for their lives – and the GOP is playing the party of “we want to see it get worse”? Obviously, I’m no political consultant, but I do wonder if this is the recipe for success for a party wounded bigtime in two consecutive elections. Saturday Night Live’s already on to it.

The North Country’s only Republican in Washington, Congressman John McHugh, may not have reached the rhetorical extremes of Rush, but the explanation of his “no” vote on the stimulus package was very harsh and in harmony with his party’s leaders.

I’m really curious: what do you think? Is this the right way for the GOP?