Are We FINALLY Seeing The Beginning Of The End For Repug Control?

[DistressedAmerican]

Poll question: Are We FINALLY Seeing The Beginning Of The End For Repug Control?

Several interesting developments of late have given me hope that these guys have finally overreached.



Delay is starting look like toast even within his own party. Bolton's nomination of floundering. Rumors abound that the so called "nuclear option" (which I was laughed at repeatedly for suggesting was a hollow threat) is increasingly unpopular within the ranks of the repugs.

More importantly, the Democrats seem to be starting to put up a real fight. Where they have been since 9/11 I cannot tell you. But, I am beginning to think that they finally ACTUALLY WANT IT!

I am starting to feel like the repug iron fist is loosening...

Am I crazy?

Am I setting setting myself up for yet another massive disappointment?

Is this the beginning of the end of repug control?

[Demit]

1. Ask me again the closer we get to the 2006 elections.

I think it's a little too soon to say anything is changing substantively.

[napi21]

2. Cautiously optomistic! Boy is that a politically correct way to say it.

Let's just say if the election were held next week, the Pubs would lose seats for sure, but it's not for another year and a half! Things that are in the headlines today will be totally forgetten by then. I hate punishment, and don't know if I can stand more of what we're seeing now for that long a time!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

3. I'm With You! My Ass Hurts! I Can Hardly Sit Down After These Past

several years!

I know that these events per se will not factor much into thinking in 2006. Short sighted creatures that Americans are!

I just hope they are the tip of an iceberg that I've seen floatig below the surface for a long, long time!

[DistressedAmerican]

8. ...

[SteppingRazor]

4. I put most likely not anything to get excited about.

Here's why: This will only matter in the 2006 elections if it snowballs and big-time GOP pols are still getting beheaded then. By 2006, and especially by 2008, the voters and the media will have moved on from this, and the GOP wil once again be "The Party of Moral Clarity."

This has to keep up for it to have impact. And the likelihood of it keeping up is not very good, what with the GOP being in control of, well, everything.

[Skittles]

6. but will the voters have moved on from high gas prices

and an increasingly crappy economy? I surely hope not.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. The Problem With Razors Is That They Cut

I'm inclined to believe that Razor is probably right. I won't believe that the Senate will be out of Repiggie hands unless the voters deliver enough Repiggie candidates the sorts of political spankings that make what happened to Barry Goldwater in 1964 look like a Republican landslide victory.

I am thinking that it might very well take the sorts of electoral earthquakes that Argentina had to put the Peronists in power in the 1940's or what has recently happened in the Ukraine or Ecuador to break the grip of the Republican Party on our capital. And I'm not sure that the Democratic Party can do it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. There was no option for

"Careful! A rat is most dangerous when cornered!"

[DistressedAmerican]

9. Kicker!

[New Dealer]

10. Too early to tell

A lot can happen in a year and a half. By November 2006, or even November 2005, people will have forgotten about Terri Schiavo, Tom Delay (unless he is forced to resign), the nuclear option, the Pope, and everything else that's going on now. It's too bad that the elections aren't tomorrow, or we'd win many seats.

[mmonk]

11. Alot depends on next week

Can't stress that enough.