Legacy of the neocons

[Fazak]

It's not pretty,...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10366.html

GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats



For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.

Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.

The Republican defeat in Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.

Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.

[alsaqr]

Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.

We Republicans failed to hold our representatives feet to the fire.  For 12 years House Republicans thought they had a mandate to shut down the government, to get a free ride from fat cat lobbyists, to drastically increase pork, and to take money from Jack
 Abramoff.   I remember when House Republicans defended their free rides on the planes of lobbyists on the grounds that it "saves the government money." 

Republicans in the House claimed to have a monopoly on something they called "family values."  When it  started to come unraveled before the 06 elections, they trotted out their "American values agenda."  Appealing to the masses for laws to prevent gay marriage, to prevent flag burning and other feel good stuff had always worked before, surely it would work in 06.  Wrong!!!

Maybe this will be a wake up call for Republican politicians, just maybe.   



   

[magooch]

I think there are two reasons Republicans are having a tough time.  First, the price of gas and the influence it is having on other things.  Second, the war in Iraq seems to be stuck.

Both of these situations are not going to be solved by liberals, but I don't think most voters put much thought into their votes.  They just want to send a message, but they are going to be real disappointed when they find out that the message the Dumbycrats take from it is that folks want higher taxes and more socialist programs.   

I hate to think what message the terrorists will take if the Dumbycrats get the White House.

[oldandslow]

It's the American way. When all is not sweetness and light, vote those rascals out of office and the other party will make everything all right. And when that bunch messes up, vote the others back in. And so on and so on and......