All the instances referred to in the article occured within the last week!
From todays Washington Post:
While all eyes were on the presidential campaign and the demise of New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) last week,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Capitol+Hill?tid=informline">Republicans on Capitol Hill were suffering a run of bad news that could hold dire implications for the campaign season.
It started with the loss last weekend of the seat held for two decades by former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). It got worse when Republicans lost potentially strong challengers to Democratic senators in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/South+Dakota?tid=informline">South Dakota and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/New+Jersey?tid=informline">New Jersey, and failed to field anyone to oppose the reelection bid of
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000590/">Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.).
The latest blow came with the revelation that the former treasurer of the http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Republican+Congressional+Committee?tid=informline">National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had allegedly diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and possibly as much as $1 million -- from the organization's depleted coffers to his own bank accounts.
If Republicans needed any more evidence of how difficult this fall may be, the past week had it all, analysts said. The http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Illinois?tid=informline">Illinois race demonstrated new levels of disaffection, the party's efforts to go on offense elsewhere were thwarted by recruiting failures, and the NRCC scandal will divert campaign resources and could frighten off badly needed contributors, they said.
"It's no mystery," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.). "You have a very unhappy electorate, which is no surprise, with oil at $108 a barrel, stocks down a few thousand points, a war in Iraq with no end in sight and a president who is still very, very unpopular. He's just killed the Republican brand."
Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan analyst of congressional politics, said: "The math is against them. The environment is against them. The money is against them. This is one of those cycles that if you're a Republican strategist, you just want to go into the bomb shelter."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/15/AR2008031502047.html---------------
I did a double take when I read the above. It appears, to me, that the popular meme of McCain and the GOP crushing our eventual nominee, whomever it may be, is quite factually a.... myth.
"It's no mystery," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.). "You have a very unhappy electorate, which is no surprise, with oil at $108 a barrel, stocks down a few thousand points, a war in Iraq with no end in sight and a president who is still very, very unpopular. He's just killed the Republican brand."
"We have met the enemy and it is us." Why must it be so?
Who was it on DU that has "Let's get those Bush bastards" in his sig line... The Magistrate? Might it be possible that DU supporters of both candidates begin to utilize some of their individual passion for their candidate and find a way to work togther to insure our party takes back out country in November?
Just wonderin'.
And I looked at the skies
Running my hands
Over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Cursing my head
For things that I've said
Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me 
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