[Do not dub me shapka broham]

We know that at least 7 members of the Republican conference cannot be trusted.

Well it's a good thing that our impeccably conservative president, George W. Bush, ensured their election to that august body then, isn't it?

[RobbyS]

If Colorado and Louisiana had gone Republican, the calculus would have been different. Bush's mistake was backing the wrong horse in Pennsylvania in hopes of winning the electoral vote there. Turns out he didn't need it. But Bush knows that the business community in the United States is not conservative. The big corporations went south on the social issues two decades ago. They support conservatives only because they can get relatively low taxes AND can feed at the federal troth .