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Will Obama destroy the Republican Party?

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    Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the President's plan to damage the GOP

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Thanks -- -- -- a Bill O'Reilly in the impact segment tonight as we've been telling you it looks like President Obama setting up the Republican Party.

For -- very hard fall on both gun control and the debt ceiling.

President simply will not offer any compromise on federal spending.

That might get -- did get -- -- and -- guns as we just heard.

He's threatening executive orders so I think the presence -- we want to damage Republicans rather that solve complicated problems at least at this juncture.

Join us from Washington with his take Fox News political -- -- But she has a chess game rather than both parties working together to -- -- get some gun legislation that might help.

Folks control criminals in that area and rather than getting -- debt ceiling -- with some you know meaningful cuts in spending.

Presences -- -- I don't bother I want alienate the Republicans.

So that people be angry with them my wrong.

Well he's been doing that ever since Election Day.

I recover the first week of December.

Pointing out that his entire strategy.

For the fiscal cliff.

Was to split the Republicans it had nothing to do his offers had nothing to do -- sovereign.

It's a fiscal issue or something today.

He's shown no interest in reducing the debt since the day he was elected in 2008.

He appointed commission two years later he ignores it he's never talked about.

Any structural.

Cuts in entitlements he has no interest in that.

He once the entitlement state if you want -- European style entitlement state you need European style of taxation that saudis interceded.

But his strategy with fiscal cliff as is his strategy.

With the debt ceiling is to split fracture and therefore neuter.

The Republicans in the house because that is all that stands between him.

And total dominance of Washington.

In his second term he wants a return to 20092010.

When he had control of both houses get a supermajority in the senate huge majority -- -- and revolutionized health care.

And that's the biggest spending bill -- stimulus in galactic history that's what he wants and the only way to do it.

-- to do what he's doing it already worked.

-- of the fiscal cliff.

Fractured the Republicans who was in charge of the last vote Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats she can't deny that attending -- -- -- A few Republicans she -- -- the agenda of -- his strategy.

And is working and and I don't know whether it's going to work down the road but he's got two huge things going for him.

The media behind him.

All right.

And so they're gonna support what he does generally speaking on the network news level in the -- -- urban newspapers and in the wire services like the Associated Press.

Get all -- that favorable porch that he's got a lack of anybody in the Republican -- Who can stand up to him.

Hi I man -- man to -- Rolen in the country Mr.

President.

It's still leadership look you might like John -- most Americans don't know we it all right.

Marco Rubio be on this program tomorrow.

A rising star but doesn't have nearly the status of President Obama or the bully pulpit and press certainly not going to give rubio break.

So that if everything is going the president's way and I think that's how he feels that he's got the momentum and -- got us watch.

The Republicans now once -- during his term.

Look I think you're right and now they're trying to two factors but there's one fundamental.

Difference between those two factors the media the press the intellectuals academia.

Hollywood there always -- they always were they always will be.

That's the sun rising in -- EC got a limited and despite that we elect -- Reagan reelected you know bush and then the second bush.

But the other factor is not constant and that -- I think you've got it wrong because you are arguing earlier in the show.

That it is some kind of structural change in the country the liberals have a direction that our leadership Obama Republican signatures are lost but I just simply.

A function of the fact that the Democrats have just won a presidential election.

When you look at where the Democrats were after 2000.

When they lost.

They have no leadership -- who was gonna leave the party after the -- defeat.

In 2004.

Who was leader of the party nobody even heard of oracle -- what you have now though in 1984.

And 1988.

Whenever a party lose a presidential -- I understand that the what I got you don't let a game where I think you're overlooking is countries changed in twelve years.

The minority -- is much more substantial the younger Americans are not engaged they don't really pay attention and they're going on women they're going on -- And the media is much more rapidly scroll left now than it was so three things have changed.

Then -- great you know whenever party wins they're going to take some momentum -- the for the next year and I don't think -- changed America now I really.

Think it's -- I think -- on every time a party loses.

You get a book coming out saying the permanent Republican majority the permanent liberal majority nothing in the country is permanent what's important to remember is this.

The -- -- Republicans have taken a beating liberalism.

I think we would agree which is -- attacks and on -- will not work.

Herb Stein once -- if -- can't -- go on it won't go on it -- stop.

It almost stopped in Europe you can only go on spending.

Racking up the -- and at one point the merry go round stops it's gonna stop for the United States you cannot have trillion dollars.

Deficits every -- it is going to be in for if the liberalism does not work and it doesn't it will be rejected.

And the conservatives who will find their leader of -- you always feel I'm not disagreeing that will happen down the road but I don't wanna catastrophe.

Before it happens and I think that's where we're head I agree with you on that movie -- I very much -- --

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