If you follow politics at all, you've heard them say it: Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney have found a message and they're sticking with it: Obama's failing, Obama wants the economy to fail, etc. And in case you've somehow escaped hearing about Obama's failure ad nauseum, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just released a video of the trifecta in action, juxtaposed against Obama's message of hope:

I'll say one thing for the Republicans -- they've learned from the master. Frank Luntz has helped shape GOP talking points for years

And he's leapt up to fill that void in a way that recalls the Gingrich of old. Howard Fineman's column this week in Newsweek sums it up best:

But is this really a strategy for 2012? I don't think so. I think it speaks more to the GOP's desperation than anything else. It's like the anti-hope; by saying Obama's failing, they're actually flailing.

Fineman on Gingrich, again: