Posted on 11/08/2006 9:02:50 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Democrats seem to have taken over the House. That means that, regardless how the cliff-hanger races in the Senate turn out, the key question is whether the Republican leaders will shed their arrogance and understand that they need to listen to the American people.
Even if recounts and razor-thin margins deliver the Senate into Republican hands by the narrowest of margins, 2006 is a major defeat for the GOP and only a fool would deny it.
In Iraq, obviously, America is delivering a message that if we keep shedding blood to battle for democracy in Iraq, the GOP will lose to the Democrats in the United States. President Bush has asked Americans for patience - but their patience has run out. They see a mess in Iraq and aren't prepared to put up with it any longer.
But if the GOP leaders in Congress had been steadfast to their agenda apart from Iraq, they might have done far better last night. It was, ultimately, their failure to produce when they held the White House and both houses of Congress that led to yesterday's losses. Had they passed Social Security reform, immigration reform and tougher measures for homeland security, they might have survived Iraq.
Instead, they squandered their lead through an orgy of self-indulgence and narcissism. The lobbyist travel scandals, the Foley affair and earmarking of funds for every last piece of pork in their districts cost the Republicans their virtue and their House majority.
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Regardless of what we think of Morris, if the Senate falls, he will have been 100% correct in his prediction.
Morris is totally ---. Fill in the blank.
America is delivering a message that if we keep shedding blood to battle for democracy in Iraq,
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We want the blood to be shed here in the USA instead. That is the message they just sent. Good luck with that. I just hope if they target anywhere, the rag heads target Washington first, while in session, filled with reporters.
.....you are correct...I Morris is a flip flopping loud mouth.....but HE is right.....it was are arrogant, power loving leadership that lost this election....why are we blaming everyone else but ourselves.....take responsibility for God's sake
I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall in the Senate offices today.
Can't argue there. From Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, and Tom Delay, to Mark Foley. I mean how much do you really expect the American people to take? And were supposed to be a party with integrity?
Morris right on almost every point. However, he fails to identify the culprit in one of his main points: the MSM, and how their slanted Iraq coverage affected people's perception of the war. That, and the fact that the republicants were too gutless to get the real word out.
It was pandering that did in the Republicans, just as it has done in the Democrats before, and will again in the future. Republicans thought a cut-and_run apperance would run against them with their base.
It's illegal immigration.
the republicants were too gutless to get the real word out.
"They see a mess in Iraq and aren't prepared to put up with it any longer."
What they see is what the media spoon feeds them. They don't get the whole picture.
Anyway, guess when Al Qaeda takes over Iraq and has access to billions in oil revenues each year, Americans will again feel contented.
Dick F-ce Morris needs to learn that we DO NOT live in a Mob Rule Government! Just because the mob wants something, does not mean the elected jump to every whim of the electorate!
We elect Representatives in a Representative Government!
Get a clue Morris!
Don't forget Bob Ney.
His predictions are usually wrong.
But his analysis here is correct.
Most conservatives would like to believe that this is a truly conservative country and ONLY reason conservatives lost is because they stayed home as their leaders are not acting conservative.
Thats a fantasy.
I see... so explain to me why Santorum and Hayworth lost?
Dick Morris is full of dog doo.....I never heard the republicans refer to any democrat as "hitler," "son of a bi*ch," "stupid," "incompetent,"....it was the Demcorats -- stupid.
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