The Krauthammer view is one shared by one who actually shapes blocks policy - Eric Cantor.

Cantor thinks that each time the GOP kills the chances for a compromise that it benefits the GOP and somehow harms Obama.

He’s been wrong - spectacularly so - twice, and yet the GOP is committed to the same exact policy yet again.

The GOP could have gotten a decent deal that gives them a whole lot of what they want, without throwing the economy into a blender, but opted not to because it could give the Democrats something too.

The GOP has adopted a zero-sum game on politics that eschews compromise. And the nation suffers as a result.