"Our Majority's In Jeopardy"

Yeah, take a peek at the highlighted quote in this story...

Corruption Scandals Cast Shadow on GOP Leadership Race

By Jonathan Weisman

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 30, 2006;  Page A01

In eight concise paragraphs, two moderate and two conservative House Republicans put into writing last week what they say many of their colleagues quietly fear: the GOP's plunging poll numbers, rising public support for a Congress controlled by Democrats and the increasing belief among voters that the Republican Party is corrupt.

House Republicans will gather Thursday to elect a successor to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) as majority leader, and the perceptions of corruption, though "neither fair nor accurate . . . are reality," Reps. Jim Kolbe (Ariz.), Charles Bass (N.H.), Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Tom Feeney (Fla.) wrote in a letter to their colleagues, imploring them to vote for change. "We must realize that the Majority we have all worked so hard for is in jeopardy."

Hey, Numbnuts. You have the majority because you got away with all that corruption all this time. If that's your idea of hard work, then your asses deserve to get blown out.

And if your majority is in jeopardy, who're you going to blame? Clinton? Cindy Sheehan? Al Gore? 'Cuz you bastards - The Party of Personal Responsibility - will never look in the mirror for the root your problems.

Comments

[Deek Haid]

It's the whistleblowers fault!

[Mark Richards]

It's particularly in jeapoardy when Republican Senatorial offices will take my call (from a liberal, but not crazed, Democrat) and remarks this morning about the Alito nomination. Several listened in (stunned) silence as I spit out the rationale. No one argued. Several said, "we're overwhelmed with calls". All said, "Thank you for your comments".

At least, they listened.

As for the Democrats two who had said they'd not support cloture changed their minds, so the calls of every concerned American to as many Senators as possible may well be working.

For those interested, the rationale is:

Judge Alito may well be a good person, and may have had heart-to-heart conversations with Senators, enough so that they felt assured that Alito will do the right thing, but, as I suggested to many of the Senator's call-takers, "we have to consider from whence he comes".

A short list to remind the Senator as to (just) the current scandals and illegalities capped off with the conclusion that "it's time to send a message back - with the candidate - that the Administration must send someone who is more in keeping with the mainstream of America, and who will - first and foremost - stand for the individual. Not the President, a corporation, or a government agency - the individual citizen".

I think this is a message that can be taken in and do believe that, in the least, I convinced a few of the staffers to kick their boss's ass.

I did 2 hours last night and ate up 90 minutes of precious work time this morning (which I must now make up for tonight). I can sleep knowing I tried.

Now you go and do the work, too.

[lawton watson]

Call me a defeatest but I believe with the strength of the republican election machine , Diebold , the christian coalitions , redistricting-jerrymandering , corporate media ,
and huge amounts of K Street cash will be the deciding factors however.

We will however make modest gains . One or two seats possibly .

I however pray to their god that I'm wrong to the tenth degree !

4:30 pm EST. is the deadline for the insertion of a backbone into Democrats by their supporters. We must give it our best shot. We must make them fear us as much as they do the Republicans . Its apparent thats all they understand !

[Mark Richards]

If I had an axe right now I'd chop down Harry Reid's tree and hand over the leadership to someone else.

He gave the worst, most milktoast speech on the floor on this issue that I've yet heard, in contrast to other Democrats who honed in on the issue and went for the record.

Reid instead chatted about the State of the Union address.

Hello?

Is he representative of the Democrat's thoughts? Maybe not. Maybe he hasn't caught up yet.

Senator Reid should stick to the issue, speak on the record, and please - your pauses are far too long. I wondered if you had fallen asleep at the podium.

The web site that Reid runs depicts a vibrant, strong, cowboy image who will ride on into town and clean it up.

The man at the podium was a weak, stringy sounding figure that brought me back to images of Neville Chamberlain during World War II.

Now, that's scary.