This Is What We Are All Afraid Of

The last Lost Cause has been strangling us since 1865. I think this is some kind of Freudian Slip.

Via TPM

Party leaders interviewed said the tea party's demands to defund the health care law -- and the House leadership's willingness to follow suit -- were distracting from what they said is the GOP's best strategy to recover from its 2012 losses: a focus on reducing long-term spending. They said defunding the health care law would not achieve that goal because the money was already flowing to the law.
"At the end of the day, you're fighting legislation that's already passed," said former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, describing the fight to defund the health care law as a lost cause.