The Impacts of Partisan Politics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020802344.html?sub=AR

I posted this in my class blog in my other class but this article pertains to our discussions as well. It discusses the partisan actions by the GOP in opposition to the stimulus plan. I wonder if the severe partisan reaction to the plan will help the GOP. The article asserts that the younger leadership in the party will try and use this as a means of re-asserting party power and using it as a rally point of sorts for the party to use to re-unify. I find this particularly interesting, because if the results of their action are as monumental as this asserts then it could be either phenominally effective or the opposite could happen and cause a disgrace to the party.