Dionne: You know it's bad when Republicans are disgusted with the Republican Party.

[babylonsister]

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f40761b9-3597-41e1-856d-5eb353ccdb34

Rotten On The Inside by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
You know it's bad when Republicans are disgusted with the Republican Party.
Post Date Friday, May 16, 2008

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In a remarkably open rebellion, Republican members of Congress and party strategists decried Bush's role in bringing down the Republican "brand," the party's failure to offer new policies, and the futility of campaigns rooted in the 1980s and '90s.

Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who is retiring, confessed to me that if his party "were dog food, they'd take us off the shelf and put us in a landfill."

Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, said party leaders have "got their heads in the sand. They've kept on this track, they keep expecting miracles, and there are no miracles."

And Corker said voters did not believe the Republicans were "solving the major problems," notably guaranteeing Americans health coverage. "We just haven't been responsible," Corker said. "We deserve to be where we are. I hope we right ourselves."

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Yet Obama's still-significant lead suggests that McCain will have trouble escaping the anti-Republican uprising. Democrats are trying to limit his room to maneuver by linking the presumptive Republican nominee to Bush's policies. Fabrizio argues that McCain's urgent need to run as an independent means that "McCain could win in a landslide, and we still lose the House and Senate significantly."

In this spring of discontent, Republicans are turning on each other because even their best news is bad news.

[BrklynLib at work]

1. Where were all these folks when their voices could have made a difference???

Sorry, but it brings to mind Ms Sandra Day O'Connor bemoaning the turn the Supreme Court has taken...UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION THAT SHE PUT INTO OFFICE.
Where is my teeny, tiny violin?

[aquart]

2. So now he wants to poison the landfill?

Which leeches into the water table?

Even Republican metaphors are ignorant, dangerous, and deadly to the American people.

[Doctor_J]

3. It should be clear from the last 36 hours that they're going to try a

scorched earth strategy to get within striking distance, and then let the voting machine owners do the rest to try to stay in the WH. If this succeeds hopefully the next Congress will start impeachment procedings the first time McCain farts out of tune, and show the GOP what scorched earth really looks like.

[babylonsister]

4. My hope is that Dems vote in such overwhelming numbers the

rethugs won't be able to steal it. OTOH, maybe they want a Dem to clean up the mess they've made.

[WillyToad]

5. But then they go right back out and vote straight republican again...

Hate makes people do stupid things.