[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Gutless RINOs are exactly what the party doesn't need.

[MaineVoter2002]

Election 2006 - Democrat Win, Conservative Mandate

[unkus]

RONNY REAGAN, WE MISS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chi-townChief]

Man oh Manishevitz!! That's some whine from the rabbi.

[BonnieJ]

It feels very personal to me. And I have felt a connection to President Bush like none other I've had in the past, including Ronald Reagan.

[Brilliant]

If you're not devastated about the GOP loss, then you're in luck. According to Dick Morris, it's going to be another 20 years or more before the GOP recovers control of the Congress.

Considering that the last time they lost, they were out for 40 years, I would not be too surprised.

[Catholic Canadian]

If anyone tought the situation was tenuous in Iraq, just wait til the Democrats get involved and really screw it up. They'll set up a Taliban style government there if they can.

[lilylangtree]

What aggravated me is that the pubby US State Rep running for re-election kept calling the demonRAT opposition a tax-spend person? And he was. Yet, when the pubby person was in the state house prior to winning the US State Rep position, the pubby voted to raise our taxes for the general budget and the transportation budget. It was like the "pot calling the kettle black." Hypocrisy!

[meg88]

I fell devestated, especially when we get Harriet Miers again before the Senate Judicary Committee for a SCOTUS nomination

[af_vet_rr]

It's hard to feel personal about elected officials who seem incapable of enunciating what I believe and what I stand for. If they understood what we hold dear and why -- who we are -- they would be able to express it themselves. Unless, of course, they really don't feel it. They don't seem to be one of us.

Fire begets fire. But this crop of Republicans seems unwilling daily to fight hard and say what has to be said. No passion. They leave us cold. What they do possess is loads of timidity and a pre-occupation with appearing "reasonable" -- Washington-like. It’s our party but not “our guys."

This sums up a lot of what I feel. Many of the Republicans in Congress - their actions indicate they do not hold the same principles I do.

[TUAN_JIM]

I voted all Republican, as always, but I've never been less excited about doing it. I felt that I was simply choosing the lesser of two evils, rather than good over evil.

[ElPatriota]

I feel the same way!... Tried helping... voted dutifully... but I have this felling of ambivalence. Not happy but not sad either. I was thrilled about the marriage amendments passing though :)

[GOPJ]

I'm not devastated because our guys sold out. If they had governed as conservatives, they would have won. Instead they governed liberal lite. Not to insult drunken sailors -- but they never stopped spending our money.

[UCANSEE2]

The DEMS may have a majority, but they didn't take over every seat in the House and Senate.

Our Representation is still there, and considering the DEMS have a tendency to be concerned only about their private needs when making bills and voting, while the Republicans tend to work together, I don't think things will be that bad.

[gaijin]

[dagogo redux]

Amen, Rabbi.

[InvisibleChurch]

we didn't lose big, or as big as one might losde in an off-year election... we are a couple seats from the senate and fewer than the normal number of seats from the house ... at least when we run candidates, lincoln chafee need not be one of them as well as other assorted phony conservatives... hard work? yeah, sure, why not? but at least maybe we can get in who we need trather than settling for pro-aborts and weak-kneed momma boys

[skeeter]

Excellent piece.

[NittanyLion]

Good article. I feel the same way. The electorate didn't reject my ideals; they rejected the leadership of may party. Big difference.

[snowrip]

Republicans were inept, but ineptitude isn't evil.

However, liberalism is... which is why America lost on Tuesday. Look at it this way... the sum total of evil trumps the sum total of ineptitude, which in turn trumps the sum total of honor. We as a country are in for a long haul.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

How Come I'm Not Devastated?

Because the author can make all kinds of money off of this? Hope those 30 pieces of silver are worth the blood of the troops.