Snatching defeat from the Jaws of Co-Victory

It remains a mystery to me as to why the party whose main doctrine is that if government gets out of the way then "hard-working real people" can succeed wildly by themselves has decided to determinedly place itself on the wrong side of such a process occurring. Whether or not it's because of Obama's stimulus or not, it's hard to believe that within a year or so this recession will still be going on; already there are rumblings that some things are on the uptick. We're too big, there's too many people moving shit about for a recession to last forever. And yet the GOP, in fighting Obama every step of the way and publicly hoping he'll fail, has foolishly put itself in the position of having to stand there while Obama (whether one thinks he deserves it or not) will be reaping all the credit for something that the very philosophy of their political party dictates would happen ANYWAY. All this instead of going along with some things and letting themselves be there in the end-zone with Obama and having things at a kind of a tie ballgame. And yeah, they'll pound their fists that success was achieved in SPITE of Obama's stimulus et al. But I'm guessing that most people are gonna wanna think that all their tax dollars (and those of "the next generation!" we hear so much about) actually made a difference in things succeeding and weren't for naught. Had the GOP thought to hire me earlier, I might’ve suggested to NOT choose the side of having to hope the economy stays in the shitter as long as possible. But my offer still has not come. Hmm.