“...showing themselves incapable of carrying out the mandate of voters who gave them a majority in Congress one year ago. “
Mandate? Wasn’t it like a 20% or less voter turn out?
The mandate wasn’t over cutting and running from Iraq.
It was over Mark Foley’s attempts at a man-date as spun by an October surprise cooked up by media collusion with the DNC. They sat on the details and then blamed the GOP for a “culture of corruption” for “knowing” and “doing nothing” (the DNC on the other hand knew, did nothing for years, and then used it for political opportunism).