Posted on 05/14/2008 10:08:52 AM PDT by tobyhill
Lot's of very glum faces among House GOP members this morning as they emerged from their weekly closed-door session. The political situation is not good, and they aren't even trying to deny it.
Rep. Tom Davis stomped on the concrete floor of the Capitol basement when asked by reporters about Republican fortunes at the moment.
"This is the floor," he said, by way of explanation. "We're below the floor."
Inside the meeting, Davis had just presented his colleagues with what he said was a 20-page memo outlining his prescription for a way out of this mess. He did not offer details to the press, yet did not spare the party and the president scathing criticism in his public comments.
"The president swallows the microphone every time he opens his mouth," Davis said.
He believes Bush's staunch opposition to the Democratic housing bill and the SCHIP bill, for example, is hurting rank and file. Look at yesterday's vote on the SPRO, where Republicans defied the president in droves. Lo and behold, the White House says today that it will not veto the bill.
Today is also the day when the House takes up the farm bill, which the president has promised to veto. It’s expected that this will become the second veto of Bush's administration to be overridden -- though the farm bill has more of a parochial dynamic than the national political one.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...
The GOP needs a sound whipping in ‘09 to wake up and realize how far they’ve drifted. Bitter medicine, but what’s needed.
Em, ‘08. My bad.
Yes, the SHOULD move right, but by all indications they believe that their problems are from not adopting the DEMOCRATS’ agenda!
The only one who is not a coward is Ron Paul and he has no opponent in November!
Bush bears responsibility for some things but the Republican Congress has so few men with balls that they should have a Eunuchs Union to defend them from the daily beating the Democrats inflict.
They’re about to get the biggest political whooping in the history of the US. It will only be when people have had enough of paying 40% taxes, no real health care due to socialized medicine, $10 a gallon of gas and heating or cooling their homes cost more than they make.
I hope the bloodbath in November will get rid of losers like this.
Of course, Tom Davis doesn’t have any reasons to believe that pursuing an agenda of the RMSP/New Majority/Moderates might have anything to do with the abysmal nosedive we are all witnessing as GoP candidates auger in like drunk pelicans on a sandy beach..
Of course I am assuming that this is the same Tom Davis listed here.. as a member of the RMSP, along with McCain, Schwarzneegger ,, etc.
It’s a Progressive clearing house for RINOs.
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/members.htm
If folks here want to vote for EuroSocialism, they can move to Europe. (hint hint)
Maybe if they showed some backbone and a little adherence to conservative principles - less government, strong defense, sound fiscal policy - they might show themselves as other than Democrat-Lite and improve their prospects.
Yes, he does. And his public communication skills are atrocious, so that even when he has been both right and well intentioned, the message is lost amidst muddled syntax and disorganized presentation. Too late, now.
You got that right. Didn’t all those Democrats “win” in 2006 by running as conservatives and bumping out the RINOs that had previously occupied their seats.
Maybe the RINOs in Congress should pull their heads out of their posteriors and read the American PEOPLE for a change. People were NOT in favor of SCHIIP; they HATE Nancy Pelosi. If the GOP will not run against the shoddy leadership and proposals of the current do-nothing, Democrat-held Congress by standing on firm conservative principles, they absolutely have no business in the GOP in the first place.
And yes, to the poster upthread who said it’s time to take back the party. Run REAL conservatives for Congress - run people who will call “climate change” the fraud it is; who will defend that War on Terror and call these monsters what they are. And plaster that witch Pelosi’s picture of her having tea with the jihad-enabling Assad in Syria while troops die in Iraq.
And for the love of all that’s holy - GROW A PAIR!!!
At some point Repubs wil realize that they have to EXPLAIN their positions and philosophy to the public. Explain, educate, repeat. We get nothing.
If they're going to act like dhimmicrats why should anyone support them?
If they're going to act like dhimmicrats why should anyone support them?
Interesting. LOL. The GOP moderates and libs believe they can throw out Conservatives and still survive. Be as it is, the GOP has a tough lesson ahead of them.
While I intend to vote for McCain this fall, if the GOP does what Cole wants, many, if not most, conservatives will sit this one out. That would bring us President Obama and an unassailable majority in both the house and Senate (look for the so called Republicans like my own Gordon Smith to become Democrats in all but name).
The story comments are frightening.
Is Tom Davis suggesting that President Bush’s domestic policy has been too conservative? If that’s the case, we’re well and truly screwed.
The GOP got a sound whipping in '06, and learned NOTHING from it. They are terminally stupid, and the party is well on its way to irrelevance, or absorbtion by the dhimmicrats.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi will continue to take conservative Democrats and still go as far left as possible.
"If the RNC is going to abandon Reagan, we'll be happy to take the seats." was basically how he put Pelosi's strategy.
Gee. I wonder why that's not working for them...
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