Huh, I thought I was depressed over this matter. You got me beat.
True. They've gotta quit taking it on the chin.
This weakness on the part of the GOP is doing irreparable harm to their reputation with voters.
Good post. I agree. I dont see a Ronald Reagan in the background with a spine to get the ship back-upright. Nearly keel up.......
PS I LOVED hearing the president publically complimenting Fat Teddy in Mexico at the very same moment Kennedy was trashing the presidents life and death policy in Iraq from the Senate floor.
"Republican Party, 1860 - 2008"
Republican Party, 1860 - "2007"
They're dead right now. If they can't spit in their face with the comparison of Clinton's firing of ALL 93 federal attorneys, and if they can't prosecute Sandy Berger; Rep. "cold cash" Jefferson; the NYT treason scandal; Hillary's many, many crimes; Dingy Harry's illegal money deals; etc.; then the Republicans are dead RIGHT NOW! STICK A FORK IN THEM!
Do a Crocodile Dundee check on Republicans today and you'd come up empty handed way too often.
It really is amazing to consider the swiftness and completeness of their fall, when a mere 2.5 years ago they seemed transcendent and more powerful than ever. They prefer to be the minority party, since there they need not actually do anything.
I say good riddance.
Hopefully in its place will rise a Conservative Party (C) that believes in: limited gov't, national security (especially the policy of pre-emptive strikes & "you're either with us or against us" -formerly known as the Bush Doctrine), securing our borders, possessing enough plums to try and execute all traitors, believes in less taxes and less spending (see Alaska Bridge to nowhere), protecting the rights of the unborn, protecting the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, protecting the rights of our military heroes to open up full cans of whoop-ass without any Rules of Engagement bs, protecting the rights of a majority of passengers on a commercial airline vs. cowering under the pro-terrorist-PC-liberal-ACLU-socialist- full-court press, caring more about Country than Corporate Lobbyist Loot or How you'll get re-elected ... you know, generally the way most elected Republicans used to think.
Soon to be a footnote in the history books, right along side the Whig Party, whom they succeed and whose mistakes they failed to learn from.
Alberto Gonzalez's BODY LANGUAGE was un-believable!!! His folded hands, his head bending down....what a WUSS!!! Wish we had a professional body language reader on FR!! Saw one on Donny Deutsch's show last nite...very interesting.
The Rs are not done and might take the White House and the Senate in '08. What is not clear is what it means to be an R.
A few folks still call tin foil hat stuff on it, but those folks are getting fewer.
After seeing Bush do all he can to throw away the Republican Ace in the Hole Card (national security) and the resultant capture of both Houses of Congress by the Democrats, yes the R's have a tough fight ahead.
Oh well, God's in charge!
I'd be more upset if I didn't think Gonzalez was in over his head and wouldn't mind seeing him go for incompetence, for not keeping track of the FBI spying on us, and for being incapable of getting the facts correct when sending his representatives to tell congress about the attorney firings.
I will be very glad when this current administration is out of office.
There's always beer, but i quit drinking! Sigh!!!