By :James G. Wiles

In the pre-9/11 movie “Independence Day,” an embattled American president questions a captured alien.  What, the fictional President – in full Rodney King mode – asks, do you invaders want us earthlings to do so that our two peoples can live together in peace? The answer, of course, is famous. n the pre-9/11 movie “Independence Day,” an embattled American president questions a captured alien.  What, the fictional President – in full Rodney King mode – asks, do you invaders want us earthlings to do so that our two peoples can live together in peace? The answer, of course, is famous.

“Die.”

That’s pretty much President Obama’s position to the Republicans – especially the GOP majority in the House of Representatives. In a penetrating analysis today in Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti writes of how “a president known for his passivity and cool…displayed enormous and impressive energy as he moved to break the Republican Party” in the fiscal-cliff negotiations. Breaking the Republican Party is what this President is now all about.