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This entire Rump Session of Congress has been a new chapter in "Republican" (Whatever TF THAT means) capitulation. The opportunity for a shining hour has been transformed into a series of stinking minutes.

The entire Rump Session in the Senate should have been devoted to confirmation hearings on the new SoD, and debates on Foreign policy. In the House, absolute maximum recalcitrance should be the Order of the Day, not craven accomodation of this administration.

It is time to "out" the personal fortunes of the House and Senate. Are the American people now so stupid that they have no curiosity as to how Diane Feinstein,Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi et al., have amassed $Billion+ family fortunes. Ditto: Hatch, Reid, Boehner, Biden, McConnell, etc.? Is this the reason the "Republican" Party blithely ignores the outspoken wishes of those that gave them the majority in Congress for the next two years?

The opportunity for a shining hour has been transformed into a series of stinking minutes.

We've had a number of those over the last twenty years. Each time we've found a way to yank Defeat from the Jaws of Victory.

In 1992, Bush ran one of the worst presidential campaigns I have ever seen. He phoned it in, if that. Look at the baggage Clinton had. The Bush team couldn't capitalize on it.

In 1996 it was Bob Dull. With even more Clinton baggage, he couldn't capitalize on that either.

Then 2000 and 2004 came along, and Bush couldn't capitalize on the records of Al Gore or John Kerry astutely enough to win the sort of victory that was reasoned. He barely scraped by against the likes of those two.

Then McCain and Romney were unable to defeat a man who may not even be a citizen. Furthermore, they didn't even bring the issue up. McCain actually endorsed Obama. Romney endorsed national Romneycare, giving people absolutely no reason to prefer him over the man that was giving us Obamacare.

In each of these elections, the Democrat's Leftist candidates were so bad, they should have been laughed off the public stage. Instead our inept Leftists allowed them to trump, or barely squeaked by, an equally disgusting outcome.

Reagan won because Carter looked so bad. And Reagan won because he took Carter to task on his record. Nobody since him has actually taken the other guy to task on his record forcefully.

So ripe moment after ripe moment goes by with out our side capitalizing on it.

Surely I jest though, we don't have a side in this fight.