Payroll Tax Cut

Karl Rove Concedes House GOP Blew It On Payroll Tax (VIDEO)

Brian Beutler | December 21, 2011, 5:40PM

Even George W. Bush's top strategist Karl Rove thinks House Republicans overreached in reneging on the payroll tax cut deal. His advice: having lost the politics, Republicans should wait until (or to see if?) President Obama flies off to Hawaii on vacation, bash him and congressional Democrats for abdicating their duties, and then ... pass the same Senate payroll tax cut compromise they could have passed on Tuesday.

"I think the Wall Street journal editorial today hit it on the nail," Rove said Wednesday on Fox News.

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