GOP, thanks for Ohio and Indiana

ILLUSTRATED: The GOP is a century behind, that's why they won't be in the White House for a long time.

After the GOP scuttled the auto bailout last night, it is clear that they are willing to sacrifice the manufacturing base in the Great Lakes area, or at least tell the erstwhile middle class that they and their families are now working class.

The way I see it, Democrats now have a floor of about 270. Granted the Great Lakes and Northeast will shed some electoral strength after the next census, but I see Maryland, the north bank of the Ohio river, out to the Mississippi as an electoral Great Wall that the Republicans cannot cross. The GOP just gave us Indiana and Ohio last night, so combined with the ever blue West Coast the White House (and thus the Federal Bench) will be to our liking for some time to come.

The GOP is clearly still stuck in an 1890s mentality of being anti-union and support a society of a few powerful business people. Democrats need to make the case the government is a public trust that will invest in the people making us a stronger whole.