Posted on 05/28/2006 7:39:12 AM PDT by NorthEasterner
Is GOP losing grip on power? By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 28, 2006
For the Republican Party, 1994 is the year that was.
The "Republican Revolution" that year gave the GOP its first taste in more than 40 years of being the majority party in both houses of Congress. On that one election day, Republicans gained 54 seats in the House, 8 in the Senate and 12 in governors' mansions around the country.
Now, 12 years later, Republican power -- majorities of 10 seats in the Senate and 20 in the House -- could unravel, or at least begin to, with this year's elections. Already, Pennsylvania's primary showed an anti-Republican incumbent mood. Of 17 incumbent state legislators who lost, 13 were Republicans, including the party's two top state senators.
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What difference would it make?
They don't seem to know what to do with it when they have it!
Sort of like a dog which chases semis and finally catches one...
This last vote on Immigration is a clear sign that they have lost it. My motto is: Today you voted; tomorrow we vote!
This last vote on Immigration is a clear sign that they have lost it. My motto is: Today you voted; tomorrow we vote!
MSM clueless alert: Conservatives tossed out the RINO's to run conservatives in the election.
The "boys club" in DC better wake up because they will have their asses thrown out also and replaced with conservatives.
IS GOP losing grip on power sanity?
Some type of madness afflicts these people who have been in Washington for more than 4 years.
It should be required that congresscritters show up in the town square twice each year and be seated on a dunking stool to determine if they're still sane. If they're crazy, leave them on the bottom of the pool.
Aye, assuming they ever really had any.
I note a direct correlation between the GOP's failure to follow through on their promises to their electoral base and their impending losses come election time.
You think they'd figure it out at some point. Preferably before they go down in defeat.
"IS GOP losing grip on power?"
It seems to me that the GOP leadership has lost their grip on reality and is surrendering their position of power.
It's my opinion that someone in a leadership position needs to seriously ask themselves this question: "What Would Ronald Reagan Do?".
I think that it's a pretty safe bet that President Reagan would not be "consulting" with (1) Ted Kennedy, (2) John McCain or (3) Vincente Fox on just how to handle this issue, especially in light of how the 1986 Amnesty has been such an abject and total FAILURE.
If your doctor turns out to be a quack, do you go to a chiropractor?
i know...i am in PA and i wrote this story
It lost its way because we gave it the wrong directions. This obsession to elect a person that has an (R) by its name or being more popular instead of demanding Conservative credentials has forced the party become DNC lite! Collins, Snowe, Chaffee, McCain, Graham, Martinez, Specter, Schwarzenegger and even Bush have taken this parties principles and flushed it down the toilet. We have met the enemy and he is us!
Just so we all remember who failed us, here is a list of the 23 turncoats:
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Chafee (R-RI)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
DeWine (R-OH)
Domenici (R-NM)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
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