Posted on 10/13/2013 5:01:16 PM PDT by Kenny
WASHINGTON — Next year was supposed to be a prime opportunity for Republicans to retake the Senate. And for a while, everything seemed to be breaking their way: a wave of Democratic retirements, a fluke in the electoral map that put a large number of races in states that President Obama lost, a strong farm team of conservative Senate hopefuls from the House.
Then the government shut down. Now, instead of sharpening their attacks on Democrats, Republicans on Capitol Hill are being forced to explain why they are not to blame and why Americans should trust them to govern both houses of Congress when the one they do run is in such disarray. Complicating the prospects, the grass-roots political force that has provided so much of the energy for conservative victories over the last four years — the Tea Party — is aggressively working against Republicans it considers not conservative enough.
As a result, many Republicans are openly worrying that the fallout from the fiscal battles paralyzing the capital will hit hardest not in the House, which seems safely in Republican hands thanks to carefully redrawn districts, but in the Senate. Republican infighting, they say, has given Democrats the cover they need to deflect blame and keep their majority.
“The Tea Party benefits when the energy is focused on the Democratic Party and their agenda,” said Brian Walsh, a Republican consultant and former strategist for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “What’s concerning is a select few groups trying to turn that fire inward on the Republican Party. And that is not helpful.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If the Slimes says it enough maybe, they hope, their dreams of Dhimmicrats holding the senate and gaining the house will come true.
Don’t believe their crap
Democrat concern troll is concerned...
The fact they’re writing such drivel is proof that they remain worried that Republicans could in fact take the Senate. Typical Liberal trick: try to create the end result before the action.
Hopefully you're not calling me a "dem-lite" & "bucket of warm spit". I'm just trying to share headlines from today for discussion.
As to who would fit that descripion, our GOPe looks like a perfect fit.
The NY Slimes — I wouldn’t buy it - to line a litter box, line a bird cage or wrap fish in it.
The Slimes - The gray old lady is senile!!
The issue is not the issue.
Whatever we’re doing we should stop and do it different, because the NYT says so ...
You forgot your "sarc" tag......didn't you????? Please say you did.....
Boy, they are really pouring on the propaganda.
Bingo. Deliberate agitprop placed above the fold on Page 1 by the presstitutes at the Times.
Actually, it's very helpful. It is exposing the enormity of the problem of establishment left-wing big government types within the GOP that want to aid this regime's agenda. That exposure and defeating them completely is the goal.
Not so fast there, Times. By 2014 election time, Obamacare will have even further pi**ed people off and quashed the economy. Them may be desperate to get the dems out.
IMO, in 2014, ZeroCare will sink the Dems in the House AND Senate. Despite repeated polls showing that ~70% of taxpayers DID NOT WANT ZeroCare, the politicians controlling each house (Pelousy and Read) bribed, cajoled and threatened their Dem members to pass the pig.
If I am correct, this rooster will come home to perch in the Dem seats in the mid-terms and the ‘Pubbies/Tea Partiers will control BOTH houses of our crappy Congress.
(It is debatable if this will be an improvement. The best we can hope for is that zero will be forced to deal with the people he openly despises during his last 2 years in office and maybe - God willing - hopefully, he will finally be impeached. I said hopefully!)
fixed it...
The Slimes do not want to see any TEA PARTY members in the Senate and house elected in 2014...
The Times would endorse a Marxist before a tea party candidate!!!
That could easily be the scenario for McConnell and Linda if they are not careful, but win their primaries.
Also should TEA Party candidates win the nomination, Juan, Cronyn et. al. could go scorched earth on the upset candidates (as they have tried to do in previous elections). It's going to be ugly, especially if Juan is out seeking retribution.
The GOPe should just suck it up and hold.
I dont’ think he was referring to you.....I think he was talking to the hypothetical republican who might believe the Times......
Wyoming will tell the tale.
If the GOP was losing, why is the story on the front page?
Pure propaganda.
Awww, the old Gay Lady is worried about us, isn’t that nice?
HUH?
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