At what point do GOP Congressional folks

[salin]

realize that looking like they are merely tools of the administration isn't good relection strategy?

The slumbering giant that is the public has not only awoken, but is beginning to wipe the sleep out of its eyes.

The party that has marketed itself as the "tough guys", the bullies with fight (which used to appeal to some parts of the sleeping giant on a gut level), are now looking like weaklings who cave to the will and bullying of a very increasingly unpopular president.

I, for one, don't mind your (GOPers) lack of awareness - as the longer it goes on the more likely your losses (at the polls) increase. But it is making for some very interesting political viewing.

Sad thing is that there are some elected dems who are still playing from the 02 playbook - and also haven't realize the gigantic shift in public opinion - and are still "strategizing" from fear (as in voting for the Patriot Act) - as in fear of retaliation at the polls. But that aside doesn't change the appearance of the GOP as a mere apparatus/tool of the WH.