Wow! Nofacts: GOP facing 'perfect storm'

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Some snips:

In nearly half a century of Congress-watching, I frequently have observed senators of a president's own party head for the lifeboats when any storm -- perfect or not -- approaches.

Today's Senate Republicans have not reached that point, but fear and anxiety among them is palpable.

Bush political adviser Karl Rove always has predicted a close presidential election for 2004, just as he did for 2000. Republican senators now realize Rove was not kidding, and they no longer laugh at Howard Dean challenging Bush for the presidency. Pollster John Zogby calls this a 50-50 country and Bush a 50-50 presidency.

Given those odds, arrogance and deception are too great a burden at either the White House or Pentagon.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak11.html

[peacetalksforall]

1. Lindsey Graham quote Dems over-playing their hand

"A worried freshman Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina puts all this together and calls it ''the perfect storm'' (adding that Republicans should handle each issue ''quickly and decisively, and hope that Democrats overplay their hand'')."

Overplaying their hand???? How can that be when the Democrat congresspeople are barely playing any hand?

The only people talking much are the candidates?

And the heroes like Byrd and a few others.

Most of the congresspeople are playing it safe by talking about the economy only. Only a few care about the lies and phony agendas.

Dems need to beat the drum harder by educating the public about what's going on...voting machines, PNACer wealth, dissension within and without our country.

They need to attack President Worst on his pledge to unite the country.

They need toprove that they are not part of the plot to control the world.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I think they are playing good poker.

They aren't showing their cards, unless when they need to. The repukes can't seem to stop themselves. They have Cattlemen's Disease: Diahrea of The Mouth. No issue is to small or innocuous for them to demogogue. They have attracted every frothing right-wing nut in the country, every seedy ward-heeler and every craven power-broker looking to scratch and claw his or her way to the middle. They have resurrected Boss Tweed in the body of Da' Bugman. Their back-pocket pundits are starting to sound so reality-challenged that they should be attended by a person armed with a Hilti Nail gun, modified to shoot belt-fed Thorazine Suppositories on Full Auto.

On top of it all, they have Crisco Johnny running around the country, campaigning for his spirit-filled version of The Fourth Reich, and claiming he answers to no one but his deity.

In the midst of all of this, the economy sucks, sucks some more, then, for good measure, it sucks yet again, just in case it missed a drop. Olympic-qualified suckage. Suckage beyond suckage, and all they can come up with is some drivel about "A Jobless Recovery".

In consumer-driven economies, jobless recoveries are no recovery at all. As mortgage rates start to climb, the last bulwark against The Big Ugly is eroding at a fast and furious clip: Housing starts.

And Elliot Spitzer is doing the work of the spavined and legless(not to mention brainless...) SEC, and now going after Mutual Funds, big ones, who are screwing the little investor. Neat, huh? As if The Street wasn't already running on a Cred Deficiency.

What the "Perfect Storm" boils down to is the fact that the electorate is getting it, ad they have another year to work on getting it. THAT should scare the pure livin' piss out of them.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Very well said!

I think, as horrible as things have become, that it may be a blessing in disguise to have the repukes in control of EVERYTHING, all three branches of government, the states, the courts, etc. Because, after almost three years of total control, what many of us hoped would happen has, indeed, begun to happen. They've gotten too confident and cocky and are allowing their true colors to show through more and more, so that people are beginning to see what they're really like and why they were a minority for so long in the first place. They're getting careless in what they're saying and doing, and people don't like what they're seeing and hearing.

[StClone]

2. Rove & Money vs. Gore's Internet and the Truth

Republicans should never be given control of anything. Their pathological fear, greed and controlling nature compels them to squeeze the life out of everything they touch.

America is waking up and it isn't an approaching Perfect Storm: it is people shrugging off self-absorption and taking a good look at what the world has become with BushCo. It's hell on earth. Time to rethink the idea that Republicans are good for anything but a quirky minority.

No matter what Rove schemes the truth is not far behind and gaining fast and Gore's Internet is a big reason for it.

[peacetalksforall]

3. The Dems and Greens have to take over for about

a quarter of a century to reverse the damage caused by the cabal who act under the guise of Republicans.

[neverforget]

6. If there was a bright side to Election 2002 it's that the Repukes

are in total control and therefore get total blame in an unbiased media world.......This "perfect storm" is of there own making and now they have to live with it. Karma's a bitch!

[NoKingGeorge]

7. Money talks- Support for aWol?

Is there ANY evidence that the fundraisers are falling short? This would say that the folks who care more about their money than Our Country are starting to get it.

[HFishbine]

8. It's Starting

Six republic senators just defected to vote with the dems against changes to overtime law. TOO THE LIFE BOATS!

[qb]

9. It's really a 51-49 country

Diebold created the illusion of a 50-50 country.
In 2004 they'll push it to 45-55.

[Booberdawg]

10. Like i've always said about Republicans

they always go too far, and it always bites them in the ass. They never learn.

Here's an interesting snip from the article:

"Those senators get an earful about Rumsfeld from the uniformed military, whose criticism in private echoes what retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni has declared publicly. The unconfirmed rumor mill from the Pentagon to the Senate has Rumsfeld leaving early next year.

It seemed pretty obvious to ME it was time to get rid of that incompetent arrogant fucker, I'm just surprised to see this rumored in writing.