[goldstategop]

Liberal Ronald Brownstein wrote a depressing article today. The Democrats are on the run! Can't believe this appeared in the Los Angeles Times. We do hold all the cards. And the minority party finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place. BWAHAHAHA!!!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[RockinRye]

Conversely, Democratic thinkers like veteran pollster Stanley B. Greenberg believe Republicans are planting the seeds for a voter backlash by overreaching.

Hang on...how can anyone trust a pollster if he's also a party thinker?

[Bahbah]

As a party, they have had few opportunities to explain what they are for, only what they are against.

They are FOR a socialist nanny state and are against anything that the President proposes or does. They just can't get over not being in power. It is a pitiful sight to see.

[CurlyDave]

Politicians are usually most successful when they can contrast themselves with an opponent...The danger for the GOP is that the political dialogue is being structured less as a choice between Republican and Democratic ideas than as a referendum on Republican ideas alone.

I think we are doing marvelously at contrasting the sound, dynamic ideas put forth by the President with the obstructionism of the left.

Already Iraq is looking more & more like a success.

Privatization of SS is much more popular than the RATs would have you believe, and the reality is that public opinion is less important than Congressional action on this one.

Do not misunderestimate the president.

[Tall_Texan]

Think the GOP will ever figure out they run the country? Or are they still scared of what the Democrats and the MSM will say about them?

[jagrmeister]

Brownstein's excuse that Democrats have no avenue for their "idea" is implausible. The mainstream media has gone out of their way to give them a bully pulpit unheard of for the minority party- often the weekly Democratic address gets higher billing than the President's address. The Democrats have the MSM; but they don't have the ideas to put across. They have nothing new to say. Tax and spend is an old philosophy that doesn't sell in America anymore; you can only bang that drum so long. Occassionaly, the Progressive Policy Institute, think-tank for the DNC, has an idea or two that I find remotely interesting. But for the most part, the Democrat Party is the defender of the status quo, hardly living up to the moniker of progressive.

[Nephi]

while hardly anyone suggested the mass school shooting in Red Lake, Minn., deserved a policy response.

It does, though. The security guard who died, could've prevented most of the deaths had he been armed.

[jmaroneps37]

The rats missed their big chance when they handed their chair to how-wierd dean. They should have made David Spade their chair. He is now making a living out of saying "NO" on those commercials. He COULD be saying "NO" for the evil donkey and they could save on his salary. He could be a $1.00 a year guy and live off the ad spots.

[sport]

If the Republicans hold all the cards and the Democrats are on the run, why haven't any of President Bush's judicial nominees been voted on?