Report: GOP "Broke," Expecting To Lose More House Seats

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JTL wrote on September 25, 2007 1:21 PM:

I'd feel better about this if the Dems didn't appear to be in the same sorry state...

Travis wrote on September 25, 2007 1:42 PM:

I'm afraid I don't get you, JTL. Who's going to win all those seats that the GOP is going to lose? The Greens?

steve duncan wrote on September 25, 2007 1:50 PM:

So dire and desperate I'd say some sort of galvanizing move needs made by Republicans. Say, oh, launching a war with Iran? Can't be changing the party of leadership in the middle of a new war, can we? We'd have to defer to the Decider as to who could best replace him in a critical time of need.

Nin wrote on September 25, 2007 1:55 PM:

Hear the sabers rattling today in the Senate with Kyl and Lieberlost? Webb did a great slap-down REMINDING everyone about the slippery slope. Iran is EXACTLY what they want. And, I say, hello in the echo chamber...WITH WHAT? Oh let's just walk next door and liberate the poor Iranians next.

I say, clean house! When they want to lead again, with respect, then perhaps we will want to vote for them. They lost their way all of them.

Mooser wrote on September 25, 2007 2:19 PM:

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

EH wrote on September 25, 2007 2:21 PM:

I bet this is B.S. Their prospects are not good for the elections so they've come up with a pre-emptive excuse for their losses that has nothing to do with policy.

r€nato wrote on September 25, 2007 2:29 PM:

I believe it. Few people send money to RNCC unless solicited to do so, it seems to me. If no one is in charge because of the in-fighting, it stands to reason there's no money in the coffers.

What Mooser said... couldn't have happened to a more deserving crowd.

gonzone wrote on September 25, 2007 2:42 PM:

And yet the Repubs continue to support Dear Leader in total lockstep as they head off the cliff.
Blind obedience. Party above country. Loyalty above competence.

cosmosis wrote on September 25, 2007 2:49 PM:

Don't make John Boner cry.

cosmosis wrote on September 25, 2007 2:50 PM:

Don't make John Boner cry again.

Processed Cheese Eating Quagmire Monkey wrote on September 25, 2007 2:57 PM:

The Dems will get what they want and what they deserve,: direct enjoyment of the authoritarianism that Bush grabbed and they facilitated followed by a vigorous GOP smear as the party that "lost Iraq" after the "successes of the surge" and "the Sunni awakening".

Perhaps we'll then be in a position to vote for true progressives.

Lux wrote on September 25, 2007 3:04 PM:

Yet again, everything Bush touches turns to crap. You would think that Republicans would notice that he has hung them out to dry.

stephennnn wrote on September 25, 2007 3:07 PM:

Help the Republicans.. If they`re rudderless then throw them an anchor.

Tom in Ma wrote on September 25, 2007 3:30 PM:

Hey, Isn't it about time to start calling "bullshit" on all those super-"progressives " who respond to any news about either the misdeeds of the GOP, or the obvious fact that the public is rejecting the GOP with the insistent cry that the Democrats are worse, plan to take over the same authoritarian project and that despite all signs to the contrary that things are getting worse every day. These latter-day Naderites are being motivated by their own, hidden agenda. It is a new form of trolling: "ultra-trolling."

tom.a wrote on September 25, 2007 3:56 PM:

This is when Dems need to up the ante and kick the Repubs while they're down. Start a massive fund drive so that next quarters range is even wider and then start a massive promotion about how the Repubs obviously don't have the ideas that the American public is willing to support.

Kick them while they're down, Dems need to do more of that.

Dave Adams wrote on September 25, 2007 3:57 PM:

Reminds me of an old bumpersticker;
"What if they gave a Republican Party and nobody came?"

Processed Cheese Eating Quagmire Monkey wrote on September 25, 2007 3:58 PM:

Any expectation that authoritarianism will be rolled back should be based on a record of action -- and there we have been disappointed! Dems embraced jingoism by voting for war authorization on flimsy justification and by accepting the existence of the military as a justification for war (Iraq cannot be exited by "abandoning the troops" through funding changes, monotonous bloodshed was to be ignored while we were "waiting for Petraeus"). Dems allowed the Republicans to "fight" Bush on legalizing torture and have not revisited this national embarrassment. Instead of investigating warrantless wiretapping, they are providing legal cover for it. Where has there been change and what promises can any believe after all of this?

The progressive agenda is not hidden and certainly not tied self-destructively to a group of politicians that have made mockery of it, whatever their party. The agenda is peace, justice and democracy. Check this out:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/23/feinstein/index.html

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/19/democrats_fisa/index.html

Jeff H wrote on September 25, 2007 4:16 PM:

Fuck Tom Cole. I live in his district and he is about a worthless SOB.

daver9 wrote on September 25, 2007 4:32 PM:

These $figures should make me happy but I continue to refuse to help the DC DUMBDEMS until I see them stand up and FIGHT BUSH on these issues: Iraq and FISA and perhaps this new crook Bush wants on the elections commission. Until I see some fight in the Dems, this yellow dog is staying out of the game. As bad as the Boy George Rethugs are, you still can't beat them when you have NOTHING TO SAY on the biggest issue -- Iraq -- that the American public is so angry about. And if Lieberdum forces another stupid vote that leads to Iran-attack, well, after 40 years of voting straight D, I may go Green.

Ross in Detroit wrote on September 25, 2007 5:06 PM:

How about a little perspective? How much money should they have at this point?

tondaka wrote on September 25, 2007 5:12 PM:

Couldn't they see if DENNIS Hastert would be willing to cover for Foley so he could get the Bush Whitehouse page and intern alumini to take up a collection and have some fundraising drives at all the national airport men's rest rooms and the the scarce interstate and state highway rest stop bathrooms that are left? That ought to bring in some hard cold cash. Heck Mitt Romney's crew would be offering ATM and they're willing to pay you! Have a couple muscular afro-americans so if they get busted at least they can say they were scared and GOP Senator Larry Craigs toe tappin' could become the standard for illegal unwelcome homosexual encounters as well as the available entertainment, and an oportunity for him to pass out business cards that say he represents the United States Senate (admittedly Craig might have to attend rehearsals but he does have slime on hi ... er I mean time on hi... ewww I don't know what that is ... stay away from me

Kija wrote on September 25, 2007 5:19 PM:

I am so sick of the pox on both their houses rhetoric. It only feed the GOP power machine to equate the Dems with the GOP. They are not the same. If you cannot tell the difference, I guess it's a relief you propose not to to vote.

tondaka wrote on September 25, 2007 5:33 PM:

There's never been a more corrupted bunch of LOSERS since Caliglia took his swan song and the American people will be made aware of where the MORALITY Party stands come 2008

Family Values OMG!

And who's family would that be?

Marquis de Sade?

Contract With America includes stipulations that you can demand action on a private citizen's sexual pecadillos while your having your own adulterous affair Heck of a job Newt Gingrich be Neutered!!!

will your next harlot receive her walking papers after she's dying of cancer in the hospital from your filthy cancers?

PaminBB wrote on September 25, 2007 7:10 PM:

Great news. Guess all the Repubs. are busy raising money for their legal defense funds instead of for the good of the Party.

OCPatriot wrote on September 25, 2007 7:54 PM:

We need to elect some replacements for Waxman and Levin and Leahy and all those other blow hards who won't use their power to confront the corrupt Bush syncopants. MoveOn.net has the right idea; let's clear those Democrats out and find new more effective representatives. Until then, it's letter-writing, yaw-flapping blowhard time.

rcareaga wrote on September 25, 2007 8:17 PM:

The "not a dime's worth of difference" meme is a seductive one. I voted for a third-party candidate for president when I was 28. That election brought Ronald Reagan to power, and while my little gesture of self-indulgence, and John Anderson's greater one, made no difference to the outcome, the experience did impart the salutary lesson that to spurn the lesser of two evils, as I saw it at the time, is to feed the greater. There are some unreconstructed Naderites who are still in denial over this.

Our political duopoly is likely to remain in place for several decades yet (and that's the best-case scenario). This being the case, the Republicans will remain the delighted beneficiary of most efforts made on behalf of progressive third parties. Hell, they tried to bankroll a Greenie in Pennsylvania last election cycle. The Democrats are an admittedly imperfect instrument, but so was the GOP when that first brave band of ideologues launched its efforts to infect and subvert the party. Half a century after Eisenhower, his party is a shambling zombie, wearing the raiment of the boring old party of stuffy midwestern businessmen but carrying within the exciting souls of all sorts of colorful lunatics, simpletons, demagogues and criminals. This did not come about overnight.

Rather than spurning the Democrats we need to infect them, to perform gene therapy. This will likely prove the effort of many years, but the Republicans have been kind enough to furnish a proof-of-concept. I think the initial immune response to the netroots (cf the execrable David Brooks in today's NYT) suggests that we should proceed as we've begun.

Helena Montana wrote on September 25, 2007 9:08 PM:

Watch as the Democrats again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I don't think the GOP losses will be nearly as great as we tell ourselves they'll be because the Democrats are failing to do what we elected them to do. And worse yet, they are failing to articulate why they are failing.

Until they learn how to communicate that the Republicans are deliberately obstructing their every move in Congress, they'll continue to appear to be what I've sadly come to believe that they actually are--stupid, cowardly, lazy, disorganized, and undisciplined.

osage wrote on September 26, 2007 11:04 AM:

The Republican party is falling apart because of what they ARE and what they DO. As a result, what either party SAYS or DOES at this point is for all practical purposes irrelevant since Republicans have dug themselves a hole they lack the political will, wisdom and integrity to dig themselves out of. The Democrats will win the 2008 elections in landslide victories more for what they AREN'T than for what they ARE. More for what the HAVEN'T DONE than for what they ARE DOING. Republicans WON'T or CAN'T change what they ARE without indicting themselves for what they've DONE. And the majority of Americans are extremely unhappy about what THEY'VE DONE! Americans want CHANGE, so the Democrats are going to win by DEFAULT. They are going to win BECAUSE they ARE the LESSER of TWO EVILS with the depth and breadth of Republican EVIL being all too unpleasantly familiar and increasingly intolerable. Should Democrats DO more? Absolutely! But from a strictly political perspective, it doesn't matter because the majority of Americans find it impossible to bring themselves to vote for a Republican. In a nutshell, Americans loathe Bush and his enablers MORE than the love Democrats. The fact that Bush thinks he is an asset to GOP candidates is not only delusional, it's testimony to how out of touch he is with how much Americans object to his presidency and the party that supported his failures, incompetence and lies.

jvill wrote on September 26, 2007 11:43 AM:

"OCPatriot wrote on September 25, 2007 7:54 PM:

We need to elect some replacements for Waxman and Levin and Leahy and all those other blow hards who won't use their power to confront the corrupt Bush syncopants. MoveOn.net has the right idea; let's clear those Democrats out and find new more effective representatives. Until then, it's letter-writing, yaw-flapping blowhard time."

Bad idea.

Those guys may not have been aggressive enough, but if they lost in the primary (which they won't) they would likely be replaced by the next most senior on the committee, who would likely be as much a snoozer as they are. Plus, we'd have the added benefit of throwing a portion of the leadership into disarray at a time when they are doing that plenty well on their own.

What we need is to continue to elect more

jvill wrote on September 26, 2007 11:46 AM:

The biggest problem with the upcoming election is that the Dems are winning only because the Republicans are so disastrous, not because of the strength of Democratic leadership.

jvill wrote on September 26, 2007 11:53 AM:

The biggest problem with the upcoming election is that the Dems are winning only because the Republicans are so disastrous, not because of the strength of Democratic leadership.

Who said something to the effect of:

Counting on your opponent to fail is not a winning strategy?

jvill wrote on September 26, 2007 11:54 AM:

(Bah, sorry for the multiple posts; computer wigging out on me.)

Hadassah Weinreb wrote on September 26, 2007 11:58 AM:

Fortunately, for the Republicans, they still own the MSM, who will trash the Dems for filth from 2008-2012.
Unless Pres HRC holds non-stop investigative hearings
over the 4 yrs of her administration,exposing the criminality of the Republicans, I fear she'll be a one-termer.

JEP wrote on September 26, 2007 12:53 PM:

..they aren't worried about losing their seats, they're worried about losing their asses in a court of law!!!

Too late for sme...

JEP wrote on September 26, 2007 12:57 PM:

"the Dems are winning only because the Republicans are so disastrous, not because of the strength of Democratic leadership."

This will be Rush's and Hannity's final talking point before the next election... if they haven't gotten there already.

And is it true that cigar Rush always poses with is the same one Bill used? And Rush paid almost $80 grand for it in a private auction??

Or is it just another vile blog rumor...

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