The True Party of No

In his latest op-ed, Charles Krauthammer touches on a point that should be endlessly repeated by Republicans until the 2012 election:  the Democrats are the true do-nothing party.  Here is Krauthammer:

As regarding the supercommittee, Obama was AWOL — then immediately pounced on its failure by going on TV to repeat his incessantly repeated campaign theme of the do-nothing (Republican) Congress.

A swell slogan that fits nicely with the Norquist myth. Except for another inconvenient fact: It is the Republicans who passed — through the House, the only branch of government they control — a real budget that cut $5.8 trillion of spending over the next ten years. Obama’s February budget, which would have increased spending, was laughed out of the Senate, voted down 97– 0. As for the Democratic Senate, it has submitted no budget at all for two and a half years.

Who, then, is do-nothing? Republicans should happily take on this absurd, and central, Democratic campaign plank. Bring Simpson-Bowles to the House floor and pass the most radical of its three deficit-reduction alternatives.

It's amazing that the Democrats have been able to get away with slandering Republicans as the Party of No (I happen to think this says more about the Republicans' inability to counter these claims than the strength of the claims themselves).  But it will be tough to change this narrative of things when the mainstream media bases their reporting on the Democrat perspective as well.