GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats

[cynatnite]

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080515/pl_politico/10366

:rofl:

[mac2]

1. The GOP politicans left Congress already with their bag of

plunder. They'll get away with it too because Dems don't care.

[jasmine621]

19. How true.

They don't give a shit and would rather turn this stuff over to Obama and let him face the wrath of the universe. It will probably be good for Hillary to not have to deal with the shit that will be facing this nation the next four years.

[Lorien]

2. I wonder; if we end up with a 70 vote advantage over repugs

will we still see so many of our reps acting like DINOs? :shrug:

[Selatius]

6. Likely, unless there is a strong Dem leadership to bring them to heel.

With timid and pale leadership, you end up with defections.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. no matter how big the majority

a sizable number of Dems will still represent fairly conservative districts, and will vote accordingly.

[Lorien]

11. That's the pathetic excuse that they use, yes, but it's time for a bit of

backbone and a slap of reality. If a person calls themselves a DEMOCRAT and gets elected as a DEMOCRAT then they need to VOTE like a DEMOCRAT. If voters wanted their rep to vote republican, they would vote for the fucking Republican! Why do only Republicans understand this concept? You don't see anyone on their side consistently voting for the democratic position on the issues. That seems to only happen with our representatives. You've stated their excuse, but the reality is that they vote repug because of who paid for their campaigns (big business), not because of the will of their constituents.

[Marr]

23. That makes sense if you're talking about social issues like gay marriage,

but if you're talking about health care or labor issues, it doesn't explain it. Right-wing working class people would support the traditionally Democratic position on those sorts of things. If Dems from conservative districts vote against the poor/middle class, the only demographic they'll be pandering to is Wall Street.

[napi21]

15. I think we would, but I agree, we need a stronger leadership.

I guess a lot of you will say I'm crazy, but I think Hillary would make a GREAT Senate leader! She's tough, won't back down from a position, and won't quit. I'm not repeating her talking points, but if she did that in the Senate, we'd be a much stronger party!

I happen to thing Nancy is doing a good job in the House, and those two together could transform ANYTHING!

[ColbertWatcher]

3. I hope we don't let our collective guard down.

It's great, but will we get a majority in the Senate? Enough to override a veto if necessary? And will it last longer than 12 years?

[tavalon]

17. Right now, I'd just be happy enough to have enough of a majority in the Senate to

be able to play, Kick the Lieberman, endlessly. That would be well worth it.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Yes!

I hope that the GOP-controlled media doesn't try to "sell" this new lie so people won't be tricked into thinking "there are so many democrats everywhere, we don't need to elect any more!"

I have never trusted the GOP-controlled media's "instant analysis" crap. You know how they are able to explain precisely the cause and effect for every newsworthy event within minutes of it happening?

And no matter what happened, the response always favors GOP policy.

I cannot wait for the GOP to go the way of the Whig party.

[liberal N proud]

4. That would be sweet

Sweet revenge

But it would place a huge responsibility on Democrats. Responsibility to fix this mess the bu$h regime has created.

[Patchuli]

18. Where who else is capable?

I don't want to see a new GOP trying to fix the disaster the GOP's pick already made, do YOU?

[Stinky The Clown]

5. We can only hope

[lovuian]

8. They are soooo screwed and deserve it

:rofl:

[whistle]

9. The GOP cancer is terminal, spread the word

[Lint Head]

10. They deserve to lose it all. They have damaged this country

so absolutely it is breath taking. :dem:

[Bozita]

12. I'm thinking rising numbers of home foreclosures. Losing only 20 sounds like GOP optimists.

It's gonna be all about how people feel about their economic security.

As all this foreclosure stuff ripples, every incumbent GOPer from a suburban area with a viable opponent has got to be sweating it.

[dysfunctional press]

13. don't forget bill foster beating the milk nazi like a bad habit in denny hastert's very red district

it'll be sweet to see him do it twice in one year- march was an election just to complete quitter-boy hastert's current term. november is for the full monty.

if the trend continues around the country, this could get GOOD.

[Hekate]

14. I hope the chemo makes them really suffer. Oh yeah.

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

Hekate

[Lugnut]

16. Good!

Glad to hear it.

[LaPera]

21. Use Republicans! "GOP" is way too polite a terminology!

However, I do agree with you!

[Rex]

22. Repukes are a bad name, shifted the negative label right off of liberal.

GOPers are fucked.

[Monk06]

24. I see a repeat of the 1993 Canadian election........

Conservatives lost all but two of their 151 seats.

Kim Campbell the first women Prime Minister in Canada
lost her own seat in a solid conservative riding.

She promptly showed her fighting spirit by moving to
Harvard, capitalizing on her American political contentions
and then to a Consular General appointment in Los Angeles.
The latter job awarded to her by the then Liberal Government
of Jean Chretien out of sympathy for falling on Brian Mulroney's
sword.

Mc Cain is the RePug's sacrificial lamb. Like Ford and Dole before,
easy meat for a Dem takeover. The NeoCons are not finished, however,
they will spend the next eight years blaming their own failures on
the next Dem President.

It matters not whether it is Hillary or Obama.

[samsingh]

25. why can't the repugs lose all their seats in the House and all

the senate seats up for election?

and the Presidency.

then we replace the imbecile right wing judges on the supreme shame and put scalia on trial for treason