`Time is running out' for House Republicans, analyst says

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON - Just as voters are about to tune in to this fall's battle for control of the House of Representatives, many Republican incumbents are running away from President Bush out of fear that they'll be caught in an anti-Bush tidal wave that could sweep them from power.

In battleground districts from Florida to Minnesota, incumbent Republicans are all but bragging about their disagreements with the president on issues such as Iraq, immigration and Social Security.

Republican leaders hope that their members know their districts well enough to ride out a national wave of sentiment against Bush and the war in Iraq. The White House recognizes that fellow Republicans may have to dis the president to win.

But at least one widely respected analyst thinks it may not be enough.

"Time is running out for Republicans," said Charles Cook, the editor of the Cook Political Report, a respected independent research report. "Unless something dramatic happens before Election Day, Democrats will take control of the House."

---end of excerpt---

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/15245178.htm

[Virginia Dare]

1. Unless something dramatic happens before Election Day...

hmmm, I wonder what that could be? :-(

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Here:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.-William Butler Yeats

It is their prophecy.

[PATRICK]

3. Something will happen

unless it falls apart like many other Bush projects. There HAS to be stunning shock before election. They seem to expect it. They seem to be planning and moving toward it. They NEED it despite having gotten so much already. By they I mean the ruling circle, not the average GOP Congressman.

Aside from merely waiting to exploit the mess we provoked, they NEED predictability. Thus there will a a "war" against Iran or someone else, provoked if possible, invented if not.

We KNEW they needed to cheat in 2004. They appeared calm. They did not start burning evidence or worrying about a future after defeat. The fix was in. We did little to nothing to stop the inevitable no one liked to think about. We presumed a lot. We planned for a future.

And it must happen again.

We can hope they bungle it, that their plans are frustrated by their own ineptitude, events or foreign interest infinitely smarter than they are. Someone else to do our job in other words. We can ineffectually, even nobly and smartly do things that cannot win but perhaps sow the long term truth among a disenfranchised populace. With less and less recourse to democratic solutions and free speech.

We can really get on the job of hauling them up short on what they must do. Spin and argumentation will not succeed in this with our brain-less-washed MSM. our party leadership is not united on-track to minimally address this inevitability. When the GOP worried about the Carter "October Surprise" of releasing the hostages they treasonably stopped it. The Dems won't allow this worry, won't commit treason and furthermore will stand up like soldiers on parade to charge entrenched machine guns or cower like sheep with everyone else too late.

What can we do besides kicking and screaming and eking out victories here and there that will not stop this single inevitable, simple plot? I think unfortunately we are left with the same unsavory thing the GOP did. Check out internal assets still loyal to America within the purged and downtrodden Pentagon and Intelligence community. Do more than expend those assets as noble whistleblowers/resigners blown away by media indifference and hostility.

Carter could be undercut because he could be depended upon not to respond in illegal kind or even get what was happening. The Bush people can be depended upon to commit treasonous and illegal acts. And that is where they must not simply be criticized or attacked from a difference but directly blown out of the water. Secrecy and lobbing things from afar is different in the two cases of dethroning Carter or Bush. The political situation too is very different. Bolton, Rumsfeld, Cheney and any wonderful associates must be taken out of the picture legally. Bush alone is a zero. He depends on the workings of his crony machine. Trying to be the decider in fact will make him stumble every time.

Build a trap on the inexorable march to war. A vicious legal bear trap with no escape. They will come.
But do not wait for the war. Do not simply hope it will not happen.

Memo on the fridge of Democratic hopes: "Don't forget about necessary election fixing either."

[cliss]

5. Very nice post, as always.

I would like to suggest that you 'copy' and 'paste' all of them, and you will have a great book, ready for the publisher.:smoke:

[rock]

4. When bush* was first proposed as a candidate

back in 1999, I said he'd do the Republican party more harm than good.