IS GOP losing grip on power?

Tribune-Review ^ | May 28, 2006 | Salena Zito

[Publius6961]

IS GOP losing grip on power?

What difference would it make?
They don't seem to know what to do with it when they have it!

Sort of like a dog which chases semis and finally catches one...

[Doc Hunter]

This last vote on Immigration is a clear sign that they have lost it. My motto is: Today you voted; tomorrow we vote!

[Doc Hunter]

This last vote on Immigration is a clear sign that they have lost it. My motto is: Today you voted; tomorrow we vote!

[Popman]

Already, Pennsylvania's primary showed an anti-Republican incumbent mood. Of 17 incumbent state legislators who lost, 13 were Republicans, including the party's two top state senators.

MSM clueless alert: Conservatives tossed out the RINO's to run conservatives in the election.

The "boys club" in DC better wake up because they will have their asses thrown out also and replaced with conservatives.

[backhoe]

Fixed it:

IS GOP losing grip on power sanity?

[sergeantdave]

Some type of madness afflicts these people who have been in Washington for more than 4 years.

It should be required that congresscritters show up in the town square twice each year and be seated on a dunking stool to determine if they're still sane. If they're crazy, leave them on the bottom of the pool.

[Joe Brower]

"IMO, they seem to be losing their grip on reality and their ability to summon courage."

Aye, assuming they ever really had any.

I note a direct correlation between the GOP's failure to follow through on their promises to their electoral base and their impending losses come election time.

You think they'd figure it out at some point. Preferably before they go down in defeat.

[Howie66]

"IS GOP losing grip on power?"

It seems to me that the GOP leadership has lost their grip on reality and is surrendering their position of power.

It's my opinion that someone in a leadership position needs to seriously ask themselves this question: "What Would Ronald Reagan Do?".

I think that it's a pretty safe bet that President Reagan would not be "consulting" with (1) Ted Kennedy, (2) John McCain or (3) Vincente Fox on just how to handle this issue, especially in light of how the 1986 Amnesty has been such an abject and total FAILURE.

[GaryMontana]

I agree with you.

The Republican party has lost their way. The Republican party no longer stands for Border Security, National Integrity, lower taxes, less government control etc...

One of the main issues in the Constitution that Bush and every Republican and Democratic Congressman pledged an oath to was "PROTECT and DEFEND our NATION from all enemies..." The recent immigration bill and a refusal to close the open border with Mexico is proof they have violated their oaths of office!

Bush has the biggest bloated budgets in recent history! This garbage about a threat of a veto from Bush by a few on here show me that they are Rhino's, nothing more.

Too bad there are few real Republicans in Congress, Too bad there is not one in the White house.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If your doctor turns out to be a quack, do you go to a chiropractor?

[NorthEasterner]

i know...i am in PA and i wrote this story

[Bommer]

The Republican party has lost their way. The Republican party no longer stands for Border Security, National Integrity, lower taxes, less government control etc...

It lost its way because we gave it the wrong directions. This obsession to elect a person that has an (R) by its name or being more popular instead of demanding Conservative credentials has forced the party become DNC lite! Collins, Snowe, Chaffee, McCain, Graham, Martinez, Specter, Schwarzenegger and even Bush have taken this parties principles and flushed it down the toilet. We have met the enemy and he is us!

[RKV]

Just so we all remember who failed us, here is a list of the 23 turncoats:

Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Chafee (R-RI)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
DeWine (R-OH)
Domenici (R-NM)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)