[TommyDale]

(((PING!)))

[Rockitz]

In nominate Larry "Bud" Melman to replace him.

[theDentist]

Good.

[InvisibleChurch]

We could try this Melman.

[mrsmith]

Mehlman probably did the best he could with a bad hand.

Let's see: the Dems put a raving liberal in as head after losing the last election and then successfully ran a bunch of phony conservatives...

[GRRRRR]

Gee, I hope my email to him didn't upset him too much.
Good Riddance.

[RobFromGa]

If they were smart they'd put Newt in charge of the platform, the message and the 21st Century Contract for America.

[catholicfreeper]

I hope people do remember that he brought us some victories too. Plus kept the Party well financed. THese chairmen are often like college football Coaches. They are praised one day but after a bad season people get amnesia. I think we need a good face but still

[Norman Bates]

The Time is Now. STEELE

[LasVegasMac]

Sh!t can them all.

Worthless POS's.

[pollyannaish]

Whew. Finally. Something we can all agree on.

[combat_boots]

Meanwhile, the Israeli PM according to one source, has been told to delay his DC visit on the 13th. "According to (an) official, the Baker-Hamilton panel is charting drastic changes in administration policy on Israel"

Source: Debka.com I know. It's Debka.

[Perdogg]

What's the compensation package, long hours, low pay, and all of the rolaids you can eat?

I am wondering if Her thighness Hildabeast is really happy the GOP won. Had the dems lost Howard Dean and John D student Kerry would have been dead in the water for 2008. Now The dumbest man in the Senate gets some headlines with Foreign relations.

[Darkwolf377]

I hope the GOP stands back and realizes that if they put up a slate of Reagan Republicans--optimistic, but not "compassionate", people who have real Republican values about taxes, spending, the size of government, the WOT--then 2008 will be the real response to the swamp that is DC. The public basically LET the Republicans lose, and the only folks around to take over were the Dems; but now we will see how awful THEY are, and the Republicans will be perfectly legit in saying "We're the new boys and girls in town."

New, younger, inspired by Reagan and steeled by 9/11, the stage is set for a Republican win across the board in 2008 if only because the voters WANT to feel proud of their country, and for all the love for them here, Delay and others who are hardcore rightwingers simply have too much baggage, too much MEAN in them.

Some here will pout that not all of these folks will be 100% what they want about their particular issue. Well, you guys got the congress you wanted from what was available on Tuesday, hope you're happy. But if the Republicans can get off their priggish judgmental interference with people's everyday lives (gambling, Schiavo, etc.) and preach a simple message--say, "We're about low taxes, winning the WOT, and keeping government out of your life"--nothing the Dems have can stop them.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

No surprise there....maybe he can go shoot Bill Maher just for fun....Seriously though people are talking about Michael Steele for this job. I think that would be a great pick.

[stripes1776]

GOP officials say Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman will step down from his post in January.

A day late and a dollar short.

[KoRn]

It doesn't matter to me that he was an ass pirate. It didn't seem to matter when he did such a great job two years ago. The fact is he failed along with the rest of the Republican zoo in Washington over the last two years. It was time for him to be sent packing(hehe).

[George W. Bush]

Traditional for a chairman to step down after such a loss.

To those calling for Steele to replace him, Mehlman was the one who worked to recruit and run a half-dozen major black candidates for the GOP. Steele and other black Republicans were the result. (It's still iffy to run blacks for higher office in either party.) So it would be a little ironic for Steele to replace Mehlman.

Still, Mehlman should step down. And Steele would be a superb replacement. He's very likable, very unapologetic about being conservative.

[Zack Nguyen]

This is too bad. The losses were not his fault. Turnout operations and ads cannot win elections when the President is disengaged, the Congress is getting indicted, and generally you have nothing to run on.

[Just mythoughts]

Why wait until January, he should have been gone like before he was there!!!!