May I ask y’all something?  Whose side are the Beltway Republicans on?  You know who I’m talking about.  The I’m smarter-than-you, reach-across-the aisle RINOs whose go along to get along embracing of Liberalism resulted in the 2006 election of the worst Congress in history and the horrible first two years of this national nightmare called the Obama Presidency.

I’m not just talking about politicians.  I’m also talking about the squishy national so-called Conservative Pundits, whose Conservatism bends to the Left with the prevailing D.C. political winds.

In his latest column, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer, A Triple Crown for Obama, Dr. Charles Krauthammer seems to be singing the praises of Harry Reid and the Lame Duck Session while chastising those same Beltway Elite Republicans whose cocktail parties he attends:

The great liberal ascendancy of 2008, destined to last 40 years (predicted James Carville), lasted less than two. Yet, the great Republican ascendancy of 2010 lasted less than two months. Republicans will enter the 112th Congress with larger numbers, but no longer with the wind – the overwhelming Nov. 2 repudiation of Obama’s social-democratic agenda – at their backs.

“Harry Reid has eaten our lunch,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), lamenting his side’s “capitulation” in the lame-duck session. Yes, but it was less Harry than Barry. Obama came back with a vengeance. His string of lame-duck successes is a singular political achievement. Because of it, the epic battles of the 112th Congress begin on what would have seemed impossible just one month ago: a level playing field.

Last night, on Fox News Special Report, Dr. Krauthammer said that the Republicans should not take away the funding from Obamacare:

I am skeptical about taking away the funds because what it will do, it will poke holes in the system. It will make it more chaotic. It will allow some things to be enacted, others to be more slowly or clumsily enacted. In the end, if healthcare collapses or if it becomes utterly unworkable, the Democrats will have a way of saying ‘well, it was all these injuries inflicted by the Republicans that made it not work.

I think the smarter approach is to simply expose to the American people what is in the bill.

The problem with giving people entitlements, Dr. K, comes when you try to take them back.

Better to starve the beast, as Republicans plan, than to enable it.

Krauthammer worked for President Jimmy Carter as a Psychiatric Research Planner and, later, for Vice-President Walter Mondale as a speechwriter.

The other thing that both fascinates me and frustrates me about Elitists in the Republican Party is their Psychotic fear/hatred of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.  Krauthammer has spoken against her on several occasions, as have several other Conservative (i.e. squishy)  pundits, like Fox News’ Bill Kristol and Pundit Peggy Noonan, who, last week, seemed very eager to suppress the notion that she might run in 2012.  Even former WH Press Secretary Dana Perino has gotten into the act, suggesting that Palin doesn’t speak in the same manner in which she tweets.  Huh?

What are they afraid of?  After all, wouldn’t their boy, Mitt Romney, take Gov. Palin in the primaries?  Why, I bet he even has a bigger Facebook following than her.  Let’s see:

Mitt Romney – 734,942

Sarah Palin – 2,546,920

But…but…I thought he was supposed to be more popular than Gov. Palin?

Beltway politicians and Pundits live in a bubble.  They have disassociated themselves from the common people.  The only time the Beltway Elite Republicans seem to pay attention to the wishes of Americans in the Heartland is when we melt the Congressional Phone Lines down and threaten their well-paying jobs. 

That’s why the rise of the Tea Party movement and America’s return to Conservatism, which resulted in the political massacre known as the Midterm Elections, was such a surprise to them.  In their self-imposed isolation, they actually thought that the America people wanted them to continue their deal-making, soul-selling, business-as-usual politics.

Now, Republicans are scrambling, trying to figure out how to appease an angry electorate and keep their cushy jobs.  Pundits are trying give them all the cover they can, while offering criticism in columns specifically written as to not cost the pundit their place on the Broadcast television networks’ Sunday morning shows or to cause them to be left off the invitation list for all the cool Beltway cocktail parties.

In summation, there is still an us and them mentality in the Beltway, even among the resurgent Republican Party.  If the Republicans don’t legislate as Conservatives, and ignore the message sent to them by American voters on November 2nd, 2010, it won’t matter if the Pundits praise them or criticize them, they will be out of a job.

After all, there is much more to America than just the Beltway.  And there are a lot more American voters than there are Conservative pundits.