Republicans, still licking their wounds from the election, have belatedly come to the realization that they have been neglecting middle-class, working Joes. Letting the tax cut debate boil down to whether the Bush cuts should be extended for the wealthy in addition to everyone else doesn’t help.

How to win those voters back without casting free-market principles aside is the challenge the GOP now faces. Here’s one way to start: Rep. Tim Griffin’s, R-Ark., bill to codify the Supreme Court’s Knox v. Service Employees International Union decision. It would be a simple, straightforward way for Congress to say it is sticking up for the little guy.