I agree with Robert Stacy McCain, and, by extension, Matthew Yglesias when they say that, come January, Republicans will be irrelevant to the governing of the U.S.
There's plenty of talk about "bipartisanship," but that's just more Democrat bullshit trying to cover their asses and drag Republicans into making sorry-ass deals to get some pork for their constituents. If Republicans are smart, they'll allow Democrats to actually govern for the next two to four years and give Americans that government they supposedly voted for. Giving Dems bipartisan cover shouldn't be in the negotiations.
Democrats don't need Republicans to pass a single piece of legislation over the next two years. They have such big majorities in both houses of Congress, that they can do what they want. And that's what should scare the pants off all Americans.
One of the keys to organizing a GOP resistance will be denying Obama and the Democrats the mantle of "bipartisanship" for any of their key measures. That is to say, House and Senate Republicans need to make sure that they whip the maximum number of "no" votes on Obama's agenda items, so that in 2010, they are in position to hang that agenda around the Democrats' necks in the midterms.
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