RW site: "Republicans Hit Rock Bottom"

[sabra]

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8691

Republicans Hit Rock Bottom

Conservatives, it’s time to put aside partisan loyalties and speak frankly: the Republican majority in Washington, now approaching its 11th year, is floundering. If the GOP does not right its course, defeat may be ahead in 2006 and victory may not really matter.
Many of the voters who were most enthusiastic about the 1994 elections results are today among the most disenchanted. The quick, bipartisan confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice is a single success floating in a sea of failure and increasing incompetence.

Consider: In the last few months, every major Republican policy initiative has stalled. Social Security reform, once the great hope for a second Bush term, appears to be headed nowhere. Moderate senators are objecting to the extension of the 2003 tax cuts on dividends and capital gains. The transportation bill came in at $286 billion, containing 6,300 pork-filled earmarks, making a mockery of the administration’s earlier veto threat.

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Republican leaders are behaving as if they will be in the majority forever. Last week’s indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who has at least temporarily relinquished his leadership role, appears somewhat dubious. The charges against Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), frequently mentioned as a presidential possibility in 2008, look more serious, though uncertain.

But from Jack Abramoff to contract spending in Iraq, the culture that attaches to political leaders who feel safe and unaccountable is emerging around the GOP. This is not yet the Congress of Democrats Jim Wright and Dan Rostenkowski, but the indications of where it is heading are not encouraging. M. Stanton Evans’ quip about conservatives coming to Washington thinking it’s a sewer but then treating it like a hot tub has never seemed more apt.

[KingFlorez]

1. Their biggest problem is

Their base voters might just stay home and not vote because they are upset with the way the show is being run.

[enid602]

2. fundies

Especially the fundies. Interestingly, donations to most evangelical churches are off; could be a portent.

[seabeyond]

4. if roberts is pro choice,,,,,,then dems can use it, repugs willl never

overturn roe vs wade, they just want it as a wedge issue. if the fundies believe that bushco was playing with them on this, that will keep them home

[uncertainty1999]

6. hmm, maybe the fundies have lost their jobs by now.

[Gronk Groks]

3. We should be that lucky...

...I simply don't feel that the average kool-aid drinking reThug would care if the repug convention was held by folks with nazi armbands and white sheets over their heads. They will support them because, gosh darn, they are REPUBLICANS !!!

Of course they are only 32% of the population. Until Diebold counts the votes that is...

[bluestateguy]

5. Republicans: Did you get the smaller government you voted for?

What these people don't realize is that you can't make the US a major military superpower and still have small government at the same time. It just never works out that way.

[Mind_your_head]

7. Yes, indeed.....

M. Stanton Evans’ quip about conservatives coming to Washington thinking it’s a sewer but then treating it like a hot tub has never seemed more apt.

:rofl:

Truer words than this are rarely spoken these days!

[Straight Shooter]

8. Roberts is a single success floating in a sea of failure?

I would hate to tell the author of this article just exactly what image that conjures in my mind ... but it involves a toilet bowl.

[seabeyond]

9. is he a success? we will have to see. 2 years, we dont know much

about him. we dont know how he will vote. we dont know if he is pro choice. if he is pro choice, then is he a success or just another failure? one never knows

[opihimoimoi]

10. Roberts? We have entrusted 1/3 of our Gov't to a man who answered

questions without really answering.....We are at risk.....