[NormsRevenge]

one more whack at the old dead horse submitted for your consideration..

[Mogollon]

Compassionate conservatism also got slaughtered. We should have known that we were in trouble when Bush allowed Ted Kennedy to write the Education bill right after Bush took office.

[Asclepius]

Perhaps most disappointing was the Republican sponsored Medicare prescription drug act.

I'll say. And it's going to suck the life out of us for generations. Someone please remind me why I vote republican, because I'm beginning to forget.

[John Lenin]

Enough articles about why we lost. We all know why, and it was many reasons, not one. The author must be short of real material for an article. This is the what, the 200th article on why we lost?

[sionnsar]

[brooklyn dave]

Well we have to see what happens in the next six or so months. If Georgie gets out his veto pen and uses it--perhaps it will bode a bit better for Republicans in 2008. Now we also have to see what kind of loony liberal moves Nancy Pelosi will make.

[PeterPrinciple]

I am still dissapointed that my Republican congress critter thought we needed a rain forest in Iowa. Not sure I will vote for him again. Took two years to find a city that would take it.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nonsense. The Treason Media slaughtered the GOP through the braindead which still believes it to tell the truth. It's portrait of Conservatives was what voters thought they were voting against. It's portrait of the Iraq war was used to steam up the ignorant.

[Non-Sequitur]

...at a cost of more than $10 billion according to the Wall Street Journal, which is approximately 24% of our current budget deficit of $248 billion.

So $10 billion is 24% of $248 billion? No wonder the budget is so screwed up with math skills like that.

[stuartcr]

2 party system...tax and spend democrats - borrow and spend republicans.

[LM_Guy]

In 1994, 1,500 pork projects were stuffed into Democratic spending bills. In fiscal 2006, Republicans allowed 15,000 such projects to be inserted into the appropriations bills by members of both parties

That says it all doesn't it about the GOP controlled congress !!!

[VRWCmember]

... at a cost of more than $10 billion according to the Wall Street Journal, which is approximately 24% of our current budget deficit of $248 billion.

Bad math. 10b would be 10% of 100b, and 5% of 200b; it is 4.03% of 248b.

[Young Werther]

To Republican Strategist:

If you wish to attract the Jewish vote...

"Enough with the PORK!"

[Sunshine Sister]

This article is right on. I'm not holding my breath that the Republicans will morph back to conservatives or that the Democrats will hold the line on spending. I don't think either party can change that much in 2 years.

[Muleteam1]

Why do we continue to whack the horses instead of the jackasses?

[lilylangtree]

"Republicanism, not conservatism, lost on Election Day. Republicans were elected to govern as conservatives, and they became liberals. Power for the sake of power was placed above all else-a bad situation for any party. Republicans may find it prudent to know that a poll last week reported by the Wall Street Journal found that most voters were for less government and lower taxes."

In a nutshell, this explains the downfall of the pubbies.

[KC_Conspirator]

I actually think that dead horse needs a continued whacking. There are many reasons why the GOP got stomped this election and I think some still don't get it or care to learn from past mistakes.

[Uncle Miltie]

Hits the nail on the head. People will opt for real Democrats over faux ones every time. Real Conservatives, OTOH, win.

[A.Hun]

at a cost of more than $10 billion according to the Wall Street Journal,

OMG! That is .37% of the federal budget.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Soon, it will also be pork, entitlements killed the Democrats! What goes around comes around.

[Czar]

"one more whack at the old dead horse submitted for your consideration.."

And yet the party-above-principle Big Tent RINOs continue screeching that the reason for the GOP loss was that we had moved "too far to the right".

What utter fools...