The Republican approach to solving the credit crisis, Recession, and foreclosure mess. Obstruct everything.

When Eric Holder was first announced as the Obama choice to be nominated as Attorney General, there was very little complaint. Even most Republicans considered him well-qualified. But now Karl Rove has decided to go after holder's scalp in the Senate hearings, and the Republican Senators are lining up behind Rove to attack. Why?

Steve Benen offers a good discussion, with this ending

It's possible that Rove, if the "word on the street" is accurate, may simply want congressional Republicans to prove a point, picking a fight they're likely to lose in order to set a combative tone for the next two years. The goal, in other words, would be to maintain as toxic an environment as possible, and the Holder nomination would simply be a means to an end.

It sounds like a pretty dumb strategy for an unpopular party facing off against a man who'll enter the White House with a lot of popularity and goodwill behind him.

Dumb? Yeah, probably, but it's what the Republicans in the Senate do. They can't govern, but as their actions to go after the Automotive Worker's Union no matter what their obstructionism costs the nation shows, they are great at obstructing good governance.

Of course, it's not just the Senate Republicans. They are all talking to each other and deciding how they are going to take the Obama administration down. Also from Steve Benen

The Republican National Committee, true to form, is going to comical lengths to try to connect Barack Obama to Rod Blagojevich, reality notwithstanding. The latest initiative includes a three-minute web video featuring a bunch of instances in which the senator from Illinois met the governor of Illinois. The horror.

The video is likely part of RNC chairman Mike Duncan's campaign to keep his job -- he's desperate to prove to Republicans that he can be at least as ridiculous as the other candidates for the post. But outside this context, the Republican National Committee's baseless smear campaign against the president-elect seems unusually cheap, even by RNC standards.

The Republicans have created the mess America is currently in, and their solution to the problems their greed-first anti-union ideology has created is to attack the government that has been elected to try to solve the problems they have created.