[toenail]

"Well, get more of the Demos out of the Congress and maybe we'll stand some chance. Will be mighty bleak for conservatives as long as they are controlling the agenda (IMHO)."

Let's say the Senate goes 50/50, and the House stays in GOP hands. Is that the death of Big Government? Or will we be asked to keep marching leftward, to keep someone from flipping a la Jeffords? Be asked to 'steal issues' for the always present upcoming election cycle? If the GOP won't vote for my family, I won't vote for them.

[carpio]

If the GOP won't vote for my family, I won't vote for them.

[Jim Robinson]

No, it's going to take a much larger majority. We need a landslide for Bush and a much larger margin in both the house and senate. Give the Republicans a mandate to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. As long as we have a chance of a large block of Demos to join the Republican moderates we'll never get anywhere. The Republicans must have the majority so they can control the committees and the agenda and they must have a large enough majority to override the moderates.