Welcome to the Funeral March of the Republican Party! I'm David De Luz, and I will be your host for today's journey through the growing rubble that is the National Republican Party... much like the flooded Lower 9th Ward, there are bodies all over the place, lots of stranded people and a Republican Party acting as if everything is swell.
So, as they do in New Orleans, let's strike up the band, twirl the parasols and get to steppin' in the 'Second Line'.....!
Before we begin, a quick eulogy and recounting of the devastation is in order:
AZ Congresswatch: In Arizona, retiring GOP Rep. Jim Kolbe said he hopes the Republican losses “cause a serious reexamination of our party’s roots and directions.”
Kolbe, who has held his seat for 22 years, will be succeeded by [Democrat Gabrielle] Giffords.
“If Republicans are to provide leadership for our country, we must get back to the fundamentals of our party — an emphasis on national security, fiscal discipline, reducing government’s role in our daily lives, embracing immigrants from other parts of the world, and a commitment to economic growth through lower taxes and increased trade,” he said.
In the Wall Street Journal online, Peggy Noonan writes of the Republican death throes: The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.
She notes that when the party had the chance to break with the President, they didn't - missing their opportunity to save themselves. She goes on to place the blame squarely at the feet of President Bush:
""Members and pundits . . . fail to understand the deep seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures," said Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia in a 20-page memo to House GOP leaders.
MORE from Noonan.....
"Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined "brand," as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership."
OUCH!
Bad politics, even worse candidates... and a President that no one likes - not even his own party? Geez, that sucks!
But you know what, Representative Maxine Waters called it a year ago..... posted on freepublic.com and attributed to Rep. Waters:
"The Republicans are dead in the water, and we need to put our foot on their necks and drown them."
The scandal sheet is long: Haliburton, Katrina, the Iraq War, Sex Scandals, Memogate, Tom Delay, Pundits on Payroll (Armstrong Williams), Alberto Gonzalez, Abu Ghriab, etc. And these are from just the first four years of Bush II.
And so in conclusion... Yes, the Party is Over. R.I.P. GOP!
Where in the world is Dandy Don Meredith when you need him??????
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