Public Policy Polling and CNN/Opinion Research both find that the Republicans hurt themselves much worse in the polls during the debt ceiling fight than they hurt the Democrats or the president. Of course, politics is not a game of winning polling battles in August of an off-year. In the bigger picture, the Republicans are making progress in their quest to murder the federal government in Grover Norquist’s bathtub. They’re also making the president look ineffectual. It would be nice if we had some good news from Wisconsin tonight. That would provide some hope that the people are in a mood to punish the Republicans severely for their bad behavior. That’s what we need tonight, and that’s what we need next year.

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