Did House Republicans Sell Us Out?

Faithfulness is not so much the issue as competence.

by Rod D. Martin
January 2, 2013

The following post was originally published as a letter to the membership of the NFRA at www.RepublicanAssemblies.org.

Nothing better demonstrates the need for an NFRA [ed. -- "National Federation of Republican Assemblies"] and a robust Republican Assembly movement in every state than the "fiscal cliff" deal just passed.

Note well:  nearly all the House Republicans voted against the deal, as did key Senators like Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, etc. The tax-and-spend nightmare is brought to you by the Dems: Obama, Reid, and nearly every single House Democrat. Boehner will get his come-uppance shortly.

That said, it's not fair to cast what the Boehner group did as a "sell out": from where they're sitting, they managed to make permanent the vast majority of the Bush tax cuts and avoid draconian, devastating spending cuts to our military in time of war. That much is admirable. These are good guys who took the best deal they thought they could get.

The issue is not that …