Senate Republicans Slam the House

President Obama is still in Washington but Republicans in the House have begun heading home after they rejected the Senate’s bipartisan compromise to extend the payroll-tax cut Tuesday. Their Senate counterparts, meanwhile, are fuming. “It is harming the Republican Party,” Senator John McCain said on CNN. An anonymous senior Senate aide is harsher in a quote to Politico: “This is a colossal fumble by the House Republicans. Their inability to recognize a win is costing our party our long-held advantage on the key issue of tax relief. It’s time for Boehner and [House Majority Leader Eric] Cantor to look these rookies in the eye and explain how the game is won or lost.”