Most important thing in this lengthy post at Hot Air, at least so far (it keeps getting updated): a Tweet from an insider who says "House leadership is livid at his speech and may blow the whole thing up."
The LITD position on this whole thing is the position Charles Krauthammer put forth at the beginning of December: Pubs need to walk away from the whole thing. Grover Norquist also said as much: make sure their fingerprints aren't on whatever happens.
It may hurt McConnell's image, or Boehner's image or clout for a deal to fall through at this late hour, but any deal would gravely hurt the cause of freedom, and that is far more important.
If we're not the party of people getting to keep what is theirs, we have no raison d'être.
The MEC made it about as clear as he could that his overall objective is to break the Republican party's back. His remarks that "Just two months ago they were adamant that no tax increases be part of any deal, and now..." and "If they think that further tax increases aren't going to continue to be part of our ongoing efforts to bring down the deficit . . ." damn well ought to be a deal-breaker.
It's going to be a long, grinding New Years Eve.
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