If House Republicans thought 2006, when their fraud of a leadership was voted out of office, was bad, 2008 looks to be a hell of a lot worse:
For the past 18 months, ever since the 2006 elections, congressional Republicans have been like a hospital patient trying to convince visitors that he is not really all that sick: a bit under the weather; actually feel better than I sound; should be up and about any day; thanks for asking.
Suddenly — belatedly — all pretense is gone.
The Republican defeat in Tuesday’s special election in Mississippi, in a deeply conservative district where, in an average year, Democrats cannot even compete, was a clear sign that the GOP has the political equivalent of cancer that has spread throughout the body. Many House GOP operatives are privately predicting that the party could easily lose up to 20 seats this fall.
Combined with the 30 seats that the GOP lost in 2006, that would leave the party facing a 70-vote deficit against Democrats in the House — a state of powerlessness reminiscent of Republicans’ long wilderness years in the 1960s and ’70s.
To which I add two thoughts.
First, there are a lot of House Republicans that are just totally useless when it comes to reducing the size, scope, and power of government, they deserve to go because they haven’t made a compelling case for staying.
Second, hopefully getting rid of the waste will allow new blood to rise to the top.
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