Via AMERICAblog, the Associated Press got Senators McCain and Graham on the record acknowledging that the Republican Party is heading toward the 2006 elections with serious problems including "the war in Iraq, higher energy costs and breakneck government spending." The following quote, however, is illuminating in that it gets at their real problem almost by accident.
"But we can recover," McCain said. "Reagan recovered. Clinton recovered. We can recover."Reagan? Clinton? I thought we were talking about congress.
The party must show "progress in Iraq, we need a comprehensive energy package and we need to stop this profligate spending," he warned.
Uh, huh.
Despite their "rally around the president" facade, Republicans know that their biggest problem is George W. Bush and the complete failure of his leadership. GOP lawmakers decided in the aftermath of 9/11 to become the Bush Politburo. They became a rubber stamp for whatever their leader wanted. That included the war in Iraq, the bloated energy and farm bills and his insane insistence on tax cuts uber alles.
Now, having given Bush every ruinous thing he asked for, the GOP can't explain the results to their constituents. They followed Bush off the cliff not realizing that he had a parachute. He never has to run for office again. He is going to go to work with Poppy at the Carlyle Group and become a billionaire brokering deals for the Saudis. See ya, fellers! Good luck with the cleanup!
Meanwhile, the GOP takes the fall next fall. Good luck, fellers!
1 comments:
McCain is in damage-control mode. Iraq was a mistake from the word go - and ILLEGAL too! But never let THAT stop the GOP.
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