Posted on 05/07/2008 3:50:49 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.
The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.
“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”
In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country.
And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves.
Although a top House Republican brushed aside Gingrich’s broadside as “hype from a has-been who desperately wants to be a player but can’t anymore,” the harsh words from Cole were harder to ignore.
“It was a pretty stern line that he took with us,” said one House Republican.
I don’t know what great things Bush has done for America.
My sense is that the Democrats are going to manage to lose an election that should have been a lock by nominating the most extremist left wing candidate that they could. McCain may have trouble with the base, but he is an acceptable alternative to Obama to tons of Democrats, and for that reason I think he will win.
The House and Senate are another matter. I know that I am thoroughly disgusted with Bush, the Republicans in the Senate and the House, and the people in the key administrative positions (like the Fed Chairman and the FAA chairman, to name a couple of winners). We have a huge, intrusive government that has wasted billions of dollars for the last eight years, been enablers to the Democrats who run the agencies in Washington on a day-to-day basis, and utterly failed to make permanent the commitments made in the Republican Revolution in 1994. They absolutely deserved to lose in 2006 and their pathetic performance the last two years makes it clear that they still don’t get it. They deserve to lose again in 2008.
So we get a RINO president (albeit maybe after winning in a rout over the new McGovernite Obama) hobbled with veto proof majorities of Democrats in the Congress in 2009.
What a revolting development this is! What an appropriate legacy for Bush, the man who expanded government at the fastest rate of any president since FDR.
And who will be lurking in the wings, waiting for 2012? Our old friends the Clintons-ready and available to take on a weak, unpopular McCain who has been unable to get anything done or stop anything that the Democrats in Congress want to do.
Confiscatory taxes, draconian environmental rules, $7 gasoline, stagflation. erosion of personal freedom, liberal courts with a bunch of Souter-type judges(the only kind McCain can get through the Senate), a weak foreign policy with Islamic jihadists in control of the world’s oil supply, a resurgent Russia threatening an increasingly impotent Europe, China astride Asia, and a weak military that makes American power an oxymoron...yep, it is a future to which we can look forward in horror.
Who is responsible? I say Bush.
The fresh scent of clarity.
Yep, another Bob Dole, an old man with an impressive resume including being a war hero against a young stud. Repeating the same mistake over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
Odd that in the course of a one hour debatethere is not a single definitive quote from Newt saying something like "There is human-induced global warming, and we must fix it."
Newt uses his words very carefully, and If you carefully re-read the Globe's propaganda you'll see that there's "no there there".
He liked "60 percent of Kerry's book"? So what? That means he disagreed with 40 percent.
"Global warming is real"? Again, so what? Some scientists think we're experiencing a natural cycle due to sunspots. It's no thought crime for Newt to acknowledge that.
Again, the insane charges you make against Newt aren't evident in the Globe's propaganda or in the actual debate itself.
LOL! Yeah, right!
blame this wreck of a candidacy on RUSH.
Toss him under the bus and keep McCain and the RNC.
This is nuts!
So we get a RINO president (albeit maybe after winning in a rout over the new McGovernite Obama)
Dream on.
We likely are not even getting that.
This election is like asking me if I want to contract a slow growing cancer or a fast growing aggressive cancer.
I'm not exactly fond of either one.
Nah, the GOP has that dubious honor and has been at it for years.
I like and understand your analogy.
No they didn't.
Oil drilling in ANWR was blocked by a Democrat fillibuster in 2006. Otherwise it would have passed. It had a majority in both houses. You have to be aware of what’s been fillibustered.
He didn't say that. He said:
GINGRICH: No, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change.
I think it's hopeless for you Newt-haters, but let me try: Newt "buys" some of the environmental "issues", just as many Republicans did when the EPA was formed by the Nixon Administration in the late-60's/70's (hell, I did too, did you ever drive through L.A. in the late 60's, with tears streaming from your eyes due to the air pollution?).
In any case, it IS important that "our country must take action to address climate change," becuase if we don't we'll end up with looney, anticapitalist, coercive and futile Socialist gestures such as Kyoto, to the economic and poloitical detriment of the United States.
That's why it's "important to take action" and "show leadership".
The basic idea is (1) concede "the science" which is clearly not science, and (2) inform and guide the "solution" toward capitalist friendly, market based ideas which are far less likely to cuase economic and poiitical harm to us.
I guess that's too subtle a strategy for the cro-magnon thinking that's coddled here on FR.
True, W has done much much more then Rush to destroy conservativism in the USA, Rush is just cashing in to promote himself.
I got a call over the weekend from the RNC asking me to contribute $110 dollars to defeat Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I interrupted him and said that our nominee designate seems to relish bashing other Republicans more than the folks he just mentioned. Also that under current federal policy we would soon be buying oil drilled in the the Florida Straits from the Cubans and the Chinese. Told him I would only support my conservative congressman until the party returned to the first principals of conservative thought.
On policy, I think Bush has been good on everything except reining in spending and illegals. Also he waited too long to shift strategy in Iraq, a major blunder, but I think the decision to invade was correct. Otherwise, he has been good on policy. He is a bad communicator and goes to extremes in declining to take on the Democrats rhetorically, instead preferring the “high road”. In that way he’s similar to his daddy.
From my own experience, try being a pilot and keeping up with all the regs. Or, try dealing with the FCC on a few thousand cell site license applications. Jeez......and to think there are a significant number of people out there that want these same nitwits to ruin, er, uh, I mean run our health care system......
>>>>>Conceding the point means you are accepting it as fact.
No, it does not.
It ALSO means that you see the point as irresovable and/or unimportant.
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