The Republican candidates are currently fighting it out to see who will be their party's candidate for President. Their messages are dominated by the refusal of all candidates to even consider tax increases, which is a key platform of the Tea Party movement.
You can get a flavour of the reaction of the conservatives here against the more democratic-supporting media here.
They really do hate eachother.
Significantly for President Obama and his supporters, a senior part of the US judicial system, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court, has ruled that part of the "Obamacare" health-reforms voted for by Congress in 2010 (and a key policy platform of the President) was unconsitutional (see this article in the Telegraph). The decision will be appealed by the President's lawyers and doubtless they will take it all the way to the Supreme Court in time for it to be a battleground in the 2012 election.
The Republicans hate the health-care reform and one of their ideas is to persuade the Judiciary that Congress (and the President) have no business intruding into what is policy that should be decided by the individual states (i.e. Federal Government rights vs States' rights).
Its a great example of a current political battle over the right of the Federal Government to impose a policy in an area which affects the whole country and which some see an intruding into areas which should be decided by the individual states.
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