In the meantime, we have the new Congress and the President falling all over themselves to see how fast they can legitimate the 20 million illegal immigrants stealing jobs, healthcare and eduation from Americans (particularly poor Americans); the only thing that stopped that happening so far was a Republican HOR, which is now gone to the left wingers.
Congress is already moving to dismantle missile defense and other military programs. They have the committee chairs and forget them EVER confirming anybody like Alito or Roberts in the next two years.
They can do a lot of damage in two years. And they now have the bully pulpit and are using it far better than our inarticulate Commander in Chief.
Were Republicans spending too much on pork and new entitlements? Damned right they were, with the President issuing only one veto in six years. How is that going to change now? It will only be worse, but now we also have the added threat to cut off funding for WINNING in Iraq, giving comfort to our enemies with their nonbinding resolutions and making the job even harder.
So thank you for giving them that opportunity and thanks for making 2008 an even steeper uphill climb than it already would have been.
...and hank you for reading the first sentence of my post.
I disagree. I think the uphill climb to 2008 is going to be infinitely easier than it would've been.
The war will not be unfunded. If they were in a position to do that, they wouldn't have put forth this non-binding resolution of theirs. It was a trial balloon, and it's failing-- there's already a growing back-lash, in spite of the best efforts of the media.
The Alito/Roberts thing is definitely a problem. But it's the same problem it has been for the past six years when we did have a "majority".
The only difference between then and now is that our new-found minority in Congress and the Senate might give the RNC their balls back. Maybe, just maybe, they'll be in a better, unaccountable position to fight harder.
In any event, Pilosi has two years to screw up the Dem majority, and I have every confidence in her.