"The White House has failed to support and defend it's party, it's silence left the "guilty" tag hanging in the wake of manufactured scandal and smeers."
..and failed to defend itself as well."
Indeed.
I'm tired of conservatives being seen as weak, and the "nice guy". We brought chocolates and candy to a gutter knife fight, and got our asses handed to us.
And then, to pour more salt in the wound, just as we're hearing the scope of our ass beating, Tony Snow gets out there and says "Hey, okay, we got creamed, but it's okay, because now we can pass the legislation that lost us our base in teh first place!"
My head is STILL reeling that he did that. It was and is complete and utter abandonment of the party, the base, and conservatives everywhere, on a crucial issue, and I've YET to hear the White House explain to us in terms that make any sense that "Reform" (ie. amnesty) will be beneficial to anyone except restaurant owners and contractors and businesses that hire illegals.
When the White House and the GOP start defending principles that benefit the common good as the cost of personal gain, and not principles that prop up business with illegal practices, then maybe I'll start think about hanging around.
It's about principles.
How about this?
The investment-banking community and their Old Money clients have decided to break the middle class on the wheel, juice them of their savings, and cast them aside. They want full reimbursement of excess wages paid, and the earnings and interest on same, plus nuisance fees and penalties for our impertinence, over the entire period from 1932 to present. How about that?
They want it all back, with interest -- all the VA money, all the Social Security money, all the insurance and other payments, all the employee-expense payments, all of it. Come to Daddy and take your whipping!
Of course, that's just a theory.