REPUBLICANS FEEL HEAT OF BURNING BUSH

REPUBLICANS feel heat OF burning BUSH
Friday May 16, 7:58 Prime Minister ET

Washington -- "The Change You Deserve" may sound like scrambled Obama, but it was, in fact, considered as this election-year motto of the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was rejected when person noticed that it was also the motto of a prescription drug called Effexor.

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Effexor is an anti-depressant.

Maybe the Republicans should lodge with it. They are certainly down about their prospects in the House and Senate this year. In particular elections during the past few months, three normally Republican seats, including the Prairie State place held for 20 old age by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, have got been won by Democrats.

The up-to-the-minute Republican Party defeat, in Mississippi River last Tuesday, was an especially tough one. The National Congressional Committee spent $1.3 million and Frailty President Cheney campaigned for the local Republican campaigner -- but their boy, Southaven Mayor "Greg" Davis, still lost by eight per centum points in a territory that went for President Saint George Shrub by 24 points in 2004. In total, the NRCC spent $3 million, one-half of its hard cash on hand, to lose the three races in Mississippi, Prairie State and Louisiana.

"What we've got is a lack in our message and a loss of assurance in the American people that we will make what we state we're going to do," said the president of the committee, Rep. Uncle Tom Kale of Oklahoma.

Rep. Uncle Tom Davys of Virginia, who preceded Kale at the NRCC, sounded even more than down in a 20-page memo he was circulating among political party members: "These races were not in New Jersey or New England, where Republican eroding have taken topographic point over the last decade. They were in the bosom of the Book Belt, the societal conservative core of our coalition. Members and pundits, waiting for Democrats to muff the ball so that soft Republicans and Independents will catch back to the GOP, neglect to understand the deep-seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the implicit in cultural differences that go on to trade name our party."

Finally, Hand Romney -- retrieve him? -- weighed in, telling : "It's critical that our campaigners have got a very clear set of principles. If we are ill-defined or, worse, if we're defined by the failures of the disposal or the failure of United States Congress in the last eight to 10 years, then we're going to lose."

Well, yes. But why shouldn't they be defined by their record? President Bush, in the end, have to be judged as a adult male who inherited the world's lone world powerfulness -- economically, militarily and morally -- and expression what he did with that power. What was it Ronald Ronald Reagan used to ask? "Are you better off now than you were four old age ago?" How about eight old age ago?

The fact is that Republicans rate to lose, at least if you believe in such as expansive old virtuousnesses as accountability. Politico.com had a batch of merriment at Republican expense, headlining one of its narratives last Wednesday: "Six Way the Republican Party Can Salvage Itself." Let me number two of the ways:

"Cut the Crap." The political party of household values' up-to-the-minute immature star, Rep. Vito Fossella of New York, was arrested intoxicated last hebdomad and began babbling that he had two families, which he did;

"Burn the Bush." Sticking with the adult male who did the most to acquire us into this messiness is, said the site, "downright loony."

So, a batch of Republicans, in both the House and the Senate, are getting ready to battalion it in, or pack up to travel home. They believe they are going to lose.

They'll be back, sooner or later. The American two-party system is pretty well protected by our election laws, which are essentially contracts between the two political parties to continue each other. Thus, our political relation are cyclical; each political party remains in powerfulness until it have screwed up so much that even the most patient of electors can't wait to direct the rogues back where they came from.

That is how badly the Republicans have got screwed up, and that's where they're going this year, back place for a while.

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