House GOPers Stomping Mad Over Prospects »
Posted by: ybdogsct 2 months, 3 weeks ago53 CommentsReflectReport this Story
The political situation for the GOP is not good, and they aren't even trying to deny it. Asked if Tom Davis thought there should be a change in House GOP leadership, he brought up the 2006 election and the loss of Congress, then wondered aloud why, when "the plane is being flown into the mountain," there has been no change in direction.
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GWHayduke2 months, 3 weeks ago
Like a kid left free in a candy store to gorge on the bounty, then sickened by his deed; the Republican party has to come to grips with the reality that this country is in FAR WORSE condition than when it took the reigns.
Is it January '09 yet?
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mntnman4442 months, 3 weeks ago
Have no fear...mntnman is strategically positioned on the mountain and is guiding them in for a safe landing (pay no attention to those power lines)...what do ya mean it's too rocky?...don't worry...those are Patriot rocks.
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mesodude2 months, 3 weeks ago
"Perhaps that fact that they have been steering towards that mountain for 40 years or more may have something to do with that."
-I guess Filthy Tom has forgotten some of his own kamikaze pilot maneuvers in the GOP (like ganging up with his hypocrite adulterer buddy Newt Gingrich to impeach Bill Clinton over a hummer and, spititng in the face of DC residents by spending millions to slap Ronnie Reagan's name on every structure in the city and, more recently, finally doing some "oversight"--by harassing the NYT about an advertising discount it gave MoveOn.org last fall--good job. Where the hell was your concern for oversight during the first 6 years of the Bush debacle?) It's shake and bake and you halp'd, Tommy. Good riddance to you and your disgusting tramp of a wife. ;-(
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ETproductions2 months, 3 weeks ago
"the plane is being flown into the mountain.."
Bush's answer? "Stay the course!"
As a small business owner, I really want to be a Republican. Before Reagan and his voodoo economics that launched the national debt into the stratosphere, and began the destruction of the middle class, transferring their wealth to the super wealthy, I was a Republican.
But the New RepugniCon party has to reinvent itself (not just rebrand itself). I will never vote for another of the lying, scheming, fear and smear "C" word lot.
I remember a very much better America when I was a kid. And the Reagan Revolution ruined it. The Republican Party of old needs to come back. Loose the librul talk and admit that the Cons and NeoCons have turned a good word, conservative, into the C word -- too ugly to even say in decent company.
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cowboygrandpa2 months, 3 weeks ago
ETproductions:
It's to bad I can only give you one positive vote for that.
Because being a conservative used to mean financially conservative.
Now it means being a shill for the ultra rich.
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Blackacereturn2 months, 3 weeks ago
Truth is they don't know how to. They ran on fear and separation and at this point the country is too busy worrying about putting food on the table to be afraid, all the money they made under Clinton is gone in gas, and paying for their refinance homes. They want real answers not the same old non issues. It's also hard to stop being who you are this tactic had worked so well for them that they really don't know how to change. I said this beforeâ;¦ they are like the old lady still wearing the beehive hair style because it was the style at the best time of her life, and to stop wearing that style is to put an end to her good thing. It will take an entire new generation of republicans to get that party back on track. You can only lie for sooo long before people ask you to leave and that's what is happening. You can't keep blaming Clinton and everyone else for our problems if you have been in power for 7 years.
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Blackacereturn2 months, 3 weeks ago
At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for your actions. My advice to those who want to be reelected is to make a public apology and an about face in your position, what elected officials forget is the Party don't vote people do. If your party is off the tracks like the GOPers are then make a move denounce them and right the ship.
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ybdogsct2 months, 3 weeks ago
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...
"Republicans put an extraordinary effort into trying to keep the Mississippi seat, including sending Vice President Dick Cheney to campaign, and spending what Mr. Van Hollen said was 20% of House Republicans' campaign committee budget.
'There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates,' said Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who pointed out the historic nature of Democrats' performance this year, noting it's been three decades since Democrats last won three new seats in special elections.
Brian Rogers, a spokesman for Mr. McCain, said the Mississippi loss is 'another indication that we as Republicans have a lot of work to do.' Fissures are growing between top leaders themselves. In an interview with The Washington Times on Tuesday Mr. Boehner criticized Mr. Cole's approach to the elections."
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ybdogsct2 months, 3 weeks ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/repub...
"In Mississippi's first congressional district, Democrat Travis Childers beat Republican Greg Davis. A few words about the district. It is red. Bright red. The sort of red that makes your sports car a target for speed traps.
Mississippi's first congressional district? R plus 10. And the district is the third special election we've had this year. The first, in Hastert's old 14th district in Illinois, went to Democrat Bill Foster over Republican Jim Oberweis, 53-47. That district is R plus 5. In the second contest, in Louisiana's 6th district, Democrat Don Cazayoux beat Republican Woody Jenkins in an R plus 7 district. And now, R plus-freaking-10, and the Republicans lost by about six points. If that is a sign of things to come, the Democrats could be looking at mind-bogglingly huge pick ups in the House, especially in blue states with widespread soft Republican districts."
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walden32 months, 3 weeks ago
hahaha - 'the president swallows the microphone every time he opens his mouth.'
Man, do I hope those chickens come home to roost.
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ybdogsct2 months, 3 weeks ago
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/05/07/...
"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."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
"Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse? On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like.
Independent analysts agree that a loss Tuesday would leave Republicans with no excuses."
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hdthehn2 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA "This is the floor," he said, by way of explanation. "We're below the floor."
In Washington speak that means that under the leadership of George W. Bush the Republican's integrity is now lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut as opposed to their integrity before the W. Bush administration when it was lower than a snakes belley in a wagon rut.
On the bright side there is no where to go but up providing Bush resigns today else the republicans will have to wait until January to move anywhere on restoring the integrity they never had.
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ybdogsct2 months, 3 weeks ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080514/pl_b...
"Democrat Travis Childers won a U.S. House election in Mississippi, marking the third time since March that the party has picked up a congressional seat and increasing Republican concerns about major setbacks in the November elections. Childers got 54% of the vote to 46% for Republican Greg Davis.
The result sends 'a political thunderbolt across America' and shows the Democrats can compete everywhere. 'There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates.' Newt Gingrich wrote in the newspaper Human Events last week that unless Republicans change they will 'suffer decisive losses this November.'"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
"U.S. House Republicans said an election loss in Mississippi yesterday may portend widespread voter rejection in the November races, and some are advocating distancing themselves from President George W. Bush's policies."
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walden32 months, 3 weeks ago
It really is amazing.
They were against national ID cards before they were for them. They were for limiting executive authority before they were for the unitary executive. They were for small government until the largest expansion of government. They were against nation building until they were in favor of it. They were for fiscal conservatism until they were for deficit spending.
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wtagg2 months, 3 weeks ago
That is a sad testament to power begetting power and a tragic sign of what is wrong with government today in this country.
So what does the next president do? Demand that we pay for what has been done in the previous two terms w, which is probably for the good of the country and most likely political suicide, or ignore the need to reestablish our fiscal well-being in this country and keep on the spending road that the last two terms have set as a benchmark.
I wonder at times of the possibility that this is actually a very long-term plan to change our governmental structure. Spend more money than the previous liberal administration while cutting taxes. This will make for an almost impossible scenario for the next administration. Do the current republican leadership really want to win this term or would it be better to come in and *rescue* the country in 2012, ironically from a problem of their own making?
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doggammit2 months, 3 weeks ago
I very much doubt they will "pay" for seven years of lies, economic devolution and unprovoked wars. How they escape is the next phase of the "plan" - which is - as i see it - to segue quickly into another war, delcare a state of emergency - traumatize America with more fabricated terror and while the cauldron boils, set up final props for the NAU - after which, the entire political landscape will change dramatically - with all the totalitarian implements coming to the fore and no longer giving the pretense of a constitutional republic - much less a representative democracy. All "priors" will be dropped as the flow of "accountability" dissolves into state control.
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