It’s official…
The revolution is dead!
32%
of Americans want out of Iraq in less than 6 months
25%
of Americans want out of Iraq in less than a year
57%
of Americans
don’t even want to wait as long
as the Iraq Study Group proposes.
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“Just 21 percent approve of President Bush’s handling of the war, the lowest number he’s ever received, and an 8-point drop from just a month ago. Most of that drop has been among Republicans and conservatives.”
Yep! even his base is rejecting his politics.
And all of this hot on the heels of the realization that not only did the Democratic party sweep the corrupt GOP out, but the Democratic party did it on a grander scale than the GOP ever managed to do during the entire “Republican Revolution”:
I don’t think it’s sinking in enough with the Beltway pundits, how large a victory the Democrats have achieved. So, here’s a fact that everyone should know, use, spread, and just generally internalize:
The Democrats have more seats in the House right now than the GOP has had since the “do-nothing” Congress of 1947-1948, more than at any point in the Gingrich years that are seen as such a dominant GOP era.
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Now, the numbers … the Democrats, after Ciro’s surprise thumpin’ of Bonilla last night, now have 233 seats in the House. After the 1994 election, the GOP had 230, which drifted down before rebounding some in the last couple years and peaking after the Texas redistricting in the 232 they had last Congress. But the Democrats overcame all that redistricting shenanigans to post a larger majority than the Republicans had during all that time of the “Republican Revolution.”
The great conservative experiment called the Republican Revolution failed miserably. We all have to be vigilant in ensuring that the Democratic party does not fall into the traps and temptations that spurred on the GOP’s miserable demise. A demise that they show no signs of recovering from anytime soon.
We need to drive on pushing harder for the Progressive agenda that has transformed American politics in this Liberal Evolution.
Or 2? 🙂
I say 2!
We can dream of a more progressive agenda, but I think it will be another election cycle with some necessary primary upsets before we get there.
With the way the media has been so slow to wake up to the facts about the election and how collosal the blue wave really was, it will still take time and a lot of pushing and shoving to get the nation back on track.
Everyone has heard Gordon Smith talk about the fact that what is going on in Iraq is criminal. I am willing to bet that before 2008 rolls around at least a couple of “moderate” republicans will cross the aisle. If not on principal, they will do it to avoid losing their seats.
This, of course, assumes that the Democratic party does perform in a semi-decent way politically and ALSO that they perform in a highly ethical way.
Let’s be honest about this. Voters on both sides are fed up with the ethically challenged politicians. The GOP may be the first party to crash and burn in all of this, as they are continuing to implode as the weeks go on, but there is still room for the Democratic party to lose out to a third party as well.
I really think this is getting to the point of “make-or-break” for both parties. And we may be watching the GOP break right now.