From Roll Call:
House Republicans today found themselves increasingly isolated in their high-stakes game of chicken over a payroll tax cut extension as Democrats, the White House and even Senate Republicans were all increasingly critical of their intransigence.
As the standoff slowly ground through its fourth day, Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) continued to see support erode for his Conference’s opposition to extending the payroll tax cut for an additional two months to give Congress more time to work out a longer extension.
Boehner awoke to harsh words from the conservative editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, which bluntly wrote that “Republicans have thoroughly botched the politics” of the payroll fight, adding that “At this stage, Republicans would do best to cut their losses and find a way to extend the payroll holiday quickly.”
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