You notice that according to Krauthammer the ONLY 'problem' which he seems to think that the House GOP's behavior has caused was that it made Obama and the Democrats look better. Never does he express concern for the 160 million Americans who were at risk of having their taxes increased, or the 2 million Americans who would have had their unemployment payments cut-off during this holiday season, or the Medicare doctors who almost had their paychecks cut. NO, his ONLY concern was that this will be seen by the average voter as a positive for Obama and the Dems. To him, the correct "principle and policy" is whatever it takes to destroy the presidency of Barack Obama and make him a one-term president.
What grinds him the most is that he and his rich, white cronies were bested by some 'foreign-born', malato presidential pretender.