Let's all face it...the across the board Republican defeat is largely self-inflicted. Our Party has pretty much had two years of controlling both the Presidency and the Congress, and essentially it pissed it all away with stupid stuff like:
The Bloated $287 billion 2005 Transportation Bill (Ted Stevens' Bridge to No Where)
Not Making the Tax Cuts Permanent
Bill Frist Caving in to the Gang of 14 over Judicial Appointments
The Harriet Myers Debacle
Ethics Questions (DeLay, Cunningham, Ney)
President Bush's Proposed Guest Worker/Amnesty Program, Poor Immigration Enforcement, and Congress' Failure to Close the Border
The GOP not laying the blame where it squarely belonged during the Hurricane Katrina mess (Nagin/Blanco got a free pass)
Overall Weak Leadership from Frist and Hastert
Letting the Demo'Rats paint Iraq and the Global War on Terrorism as a collective lost cause
The good news in all of this is, based upon the 'Rats propensity for backbiting and scheming, is that Pelosi and Reid will have their hands full trying to keep their own jobs and their own Party from flying apart, especially after they will prove unable to pull our troops out of Iraq, which will ultimately cause the anti-war freaks to turn on them like pit bulls.
My .02 worth of analysis for today...
VR