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In WSJ: Rove anticipates a GOP civil war

Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal today that President Obama's goal in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations is "humiliating the opposition" rather than reaching an actual deal.

He also suggests a "civil war" within the Republican Party is a possibility:

[T]he president is now less interested in raising revenues than in raising marginal tax rates on top earners. He apparently believes that Republicans, in a weakened state and defending an unpopular position, might buckle on a central GOP tenet, opposition to any increase in marginal rates. That might kick off a Republican civil war, resulting in divisive party primaries in 2014 that leave the president's opposition even more weakened and produce more subpar candidates like this year's Republican Senate candidates in Indiana and Missouri. ...

Mr. Obama has less than two years before the window for serious legislative action comes to a close. All his bludgeoning of House Republicans to raise marginal rates may well appeal to his political instincts. But when the animating force for a president is humiliating the opposition rather than working with them, bad things usually come to pass.

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