Without Bush 'millstone,' GOP can mount comeback, leader says (NOT The Onion)

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/27/gop.comeback/index.html



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new "energy and enthusiasm" for winning back the majority, according to their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

"President Bush had become extremely unpopular, and politically he was sort of a millstone around our necks in both '06 and '08," McConnell told reporters Friday. "We now have the opportunity to be on offense, offer our own ideas and we will win some."

Many of those ideas get presented as amendments to Democratic bills, and even though they're usually defeated, they can draw attention to GOP policy alternatives and force Democrats to take difficult votes.

"They become the way you chart the course for a comeback, which, in this country, always happens at some point," McConnell said. "The pendulum swings."

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I think I'm hallucinating.

:wow:

[hobbit709]

1. They really don't inhabit the same space-time continuum we do.

[Ecumenist]

2. You know, people in hell want water.

Just keep thinking that they'll do well and that bush is their only problem.

[rasputin1952]

3. The GOP is a party that has destroyed itself, then jumped on the

express to hell. While bush is incredibly disliked, that is but one facet of an extremely serious problem that goes beyond their choice for president. The GOP has nothing to offer, nothing new, and the old ideas have been proven to be disastrous to the nation. They are hung up on tax cuts and deregulation, two things that have plummeted the nation into what appears to be the brink of financial disaster.

There is plenty more that can be said; "Imperial Presidency", wars w/o end, spending w/o any oversight, using the Treasury as a personal piggy bank, a complete and total lack of tact and dignity...the GOP has placed itself in a position where it needs a complete transition to be anywhere near competitive in the future.

bush is but one problem, McConnell is another. Add Boehner, Cheney, DeLay, and some others, and the GOP hasn't a chance to overcome their negativity. This is not the Party of Lincoln, nor the Party of Eisenhower...it is a party filled with ignorant, unstable individuals that are reminiscent of the Whig Party...and they will have the same fate as the Whigs, bumbling about in the dark and dusty halls of history.