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Then you have the great sound bites from the GOP side, including Congresswoman Schmidt's fantastic "cowards surrender, Marines never do!" THAT ONE will be on all the ads, you can believe it.

I disagree. It might make it on to a 527 ad or two, but no Republican will touch it. Republicans believe believe that the worst possible sin of all is discourtesy, and would never dream of using such strong moral-laden language. ("Might turn off the swing voters, you know, old boy!"

Good post. I was also pleased to see the restraint and dignity on the Republican side as opposed to the catcalls and interuptions from the democrat side. Further, I was real impressed with Gingrey, I thought he did a great job, in not responding to the nonsense from the other side. I had never watched that much CSPAN before, and was fascinated by the machinations and inner workings. And like I said, the difference in decorum between the Republicans and Democrats was night and day. All in all, a great week for our side!

Vote against staying the course: McKinney, Serrano, Wexler, while I disagree, I respect their right to dissent.

These representatives hid in their foxholes while their fellow combatants took up the fight. They are not worthy of the high office they hold. They are the cowards of the House: Capuano, Clay, Hinchey, McDermott, Nadler, Owens voted PRESENT.

These democrats are afraid of their own shadow and who were also absent without excuse and failed to cast a vote: Berman, Boswell, Boyd,Davis (AL)

These are republicans in name only, who deserted America in time of war. They were absent without excuse. They failed to perform their duty, which is to govern. They are not one of us. Davis (AL), Fossella, Gallegly, Hall, Jindal, LaHood, Miller, Gary, Moran (KS), Northup, Paul, Peterson (PA), Shadegg, Young (AK)

House roll call vote 607, H.RES.572, Providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 571) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately...

This was the vote to vote, where the RINO's showed themselves.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll607.xml

Good assessment -- IF the Republicans can continue to behave like the majority party they were last night. My only quibble is that, due to gerrymandering, I don't think a 30 seat pick-up is possible even in the best of circumstances.

FYI, the local rag, AJC in Atlanta had nothing AT ALL about the vote that I could find in their on-line edition this morning. It did, however, have a headline about congress voting for a Rosa Parks statue and about Bush rejecting an Iraqi pullout.

The AJC's circulation is down by over 8% and Cynthia Tucker ran an editorial about Bush's lies re Iraq. Go figure.

from two months on...

The GOP forced the Dems to choose between the general election next year and the primaries, and the Dems chose the general election. The result will be threefold: 1) a dramatic decrease in funding of the Dems across the board, but especially the House members' campaigns (as if Dean wasn't hurting them enough in that area anyway); 2) a decrease in the committed volunteers from the Michael Moore/Moveon/Moonbat wing; and 3) probably the most serious, intense challenges in the primaries for many of these incumbents from the left. By the way, for all the Rush Limbaugh bashers on the board, this was precisely the strategy that Rush recommended before he left on break: MAKE the Dems become more extreme and cater to their base even more.

Very astute observation, IMHO; the Plame smear went nowhere; the bribery smear will have to go nowhere because it mostly smears the Dhimmicrats; the DeLay smear may succeed, but if it does, there will be payback, not least at the polls; the NSA smear backfired bigtime, even though the partisan media shills are trying to keep it going to try manufacture consent (a phrase from the reprehensible Noam Chomsky), a strategy that will further backfire by further radicalizing the base and alienating it from other votes who can see how crazy it is and how crazy they are.