I guess I am pretty negative about Republicans these days, Jim -- at least those outside the Bush Administration. I have great confidence in and tremendous respect for the President and his close advisors, especially Mssrs. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Dr. Rice. I just note there are quite a number of congressional Pubbies that seem to give him almost as much trouble as the Dims.... Instead of standing with their President on, say, tax cuts (e.g., Grassley, McCain, Snowe, Collins, Chafee, et al.), they find every "high-minded" excuse to stick to the stinky status quo...instead of letting their leader LEAD.... Heaven forfend that those mandarins should ever follow anyone or anything but their own narrowly-defined political self-interest.
But you're absolutely right -- the Party of the Dim must be systematically denied the resumption of control of any branch of the government. That is essential! And this is so because the Left systematically lies and cheats. (Pubbies tend not to do truly outrageous stuff like that.) But the Left obviously has no compunction about rigging/stealing elections, or outright, calculated, deliberate lying to the public. And the general public manages to remain either clueless or indifferent about the Left's active subversion of American institutions. They get sucked into the rhetoric, not realizing how very bad the reality is for them in terms of both liberty and national security.
WE need to work hard to get a supermajority in the senate, 55 or 56 Republican senators, to me, isn't enough.
We need an overwhelming majority. It worked for the Raw New Deal democRats and we have been paying for their efforts for years in building a dependent system par non. A populace dependent on govt for anything and everything has to stop be the order of and fundamental social program changes and the day and eliminations and /or re-structuring thereof need to be made.