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To: Road Walker who wrote (311501)	11/21/2006 8:14:13 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1577901

"After an election repudiating the politics of Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay" Which is why I think those who are saying the Republicans will be a regional party are correct. Many, but not all, just don't seem to get it. I think the ones pushing the magical "we lost because it was the 6th year of the presidency" mem especially telling. What an amazing cop out, "there are vast forces out of our control that whacked us. There was nothing we could do". Conveniently ignoring that corruption was an important factor in the exit polls, even among evangelicals who still voted for them. Issues like gay marriage, Shaivo, stem cell research and abortion seems to be losing them the West and Midwest and those losses are likely to be long term. Their stance on global warming and foreign oil won't help them either. So it looks as if the Republican party will only have any strength in the South. And even that won't be solid, look at Arkansas. Not exactly happy about that, but sometimes you have to take a bullet for your buddies...

To: Road Walker who wrote (311501)	11/22/2006 1:10:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577901

Last Friday, the Republicans gave the Democrats a gift that will keep on giving: Roy Blunt of Missouri. After an election repudiating the politics of Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay, Republicans elevated Blunt from the number three spot in the leadership to number Roy Blunt embodies the insidious, half-legal corruption that has permeated the G.O.P. majority since 1995. Blunt’s election as minority whip, by a 137-to-57 margin, was a defiant Republican rejection of calls to clean up their act. Warnings by Blunt’s challenger, John Shadegg of Arizona — “We ceded our reform-minded principles in exchange for a ...tighter grip on power” — went unheeded. In 1998, DeLay put Blunt on the leadership ladder, making him chief deputy whip. Blunt modeled himself on DeLay, creating an identical network of state and federal political committees that raised money from the same lobbyists, corporations and trade associations that financed what became known as DeLay Inc. I noticed this move.......the media made a huge thing of the Pelosi/Murtha/Hoyer tug of war and ignored this ugly business as usual. In Blunt, House Republicans have kept on display a top official reminding voters why they cast ballots for Democrats on Nov. 7. After winning the post of minority whip last week, Blunt declared that the Republicans had “come together ... frankly, to get rid of the bad habits that we may have developed in 12 years in the majority.” This is precisely the opposite of what they actually did, which was to affirm their bad habits. The burden on the Democrats will be to make the elusive Blunt a nationally recognized figure. If the GOP keeps this up [and please note that any conciliatory talk on the part of Bush post election is just about finished], it may not even be a regional party in a few years.