Why bother?

“I believe that if we’re successful in this election — when we’re successful in this election — that the fever may break, because there’s a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that... My hope and my expectation is that after the election, now that it turns out the goal of beating Obama doesn’t make much sense because I’m not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again.”

He does not seem to realize that this motivates his defeat as well as it does his re-election.

If Romney is elected, we will see a resolution of the "fiscal cliff"--it'll just all be thrown onto the backs of the poor, the elderly, the working.

If elected, we might very well see pump-priming through the fiscal channel--it'll just all be throwing money at the executive class and the hangers-on and sycophant set. We'll almost certainly see more through the monetary channel, as the Republicans on the Fed will now no longer fear inflation given that the right sort of person is in the White House, revealing once again that they know neither how American government works nor anything about fiscal history in this country in the last 30 years.

And if the CBO projections are accurate, we'll see an eventual recovery--exactly in line with what Romney is already forecasting--that the GOP will take credit for. The fever will break, the sun will shine, and the world can go to hell.