Does the (R) Corpse Stink Yet?

Angelo Codevilla:

Having refused to repeal Obamacare, the Republican Party is dead, as was the Whig Party in 1854 after it colluded in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which opened these territories to slavery....

Some of you remember the local radiomouth Charlie Sykes, who famously said (on multiple occasions) that he was 'not a Republican, but a Conservative.'

There was a difference then, and there is one now.  Charlie has departed Conservatism for Neo-Conservatism, of course, but....