Aha! The reasons the Republicans lost the House (and, maybe, the Senate) wasn’t because of Tom Delay, or Bill Frist, or Mark Foley, or Karl Rove, or Jack Abramoff, or George W. Bush! It was … John McCain!
The long and short of this bad but not horrific night was that majorities must act like majorities. The public cares little for the “traditions” of the Senate or the way the appropriations process used to work. It demands results. Handed a large majority, the GOP frittered it away. The chief fritterer was Senator McCain and his Gang of 14 and Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, supplemented by a last minute throw down that prevented the NSA bill from progressing or the key judicial nominations
from receiving a vote. His accomplice in that master stroke was Senator Graham. Together they cost their friend Mike DeWine his seat in the Senate, and all their Republican colleagues their chairmanships. Senator McCain should rethink his presidential run. Amid the ruins of the GOP’s majority there is a clear culprit.
The GOP lost because they didn’t go along with Bush on everything, pass whatever legislation they wanted, and do whatever they pleased. They wrangled internally! How can such a nation, or party, endure?
If only we’d had real one-party rule one-party rule over the last six years, we wouldn’t be waking up to a Democratic majority in the House, I can tell you!
*Doubles over in fits of laughter at the snark*
So, why do people take Hewitt seriously?
Because they like the flavor of Kool-Aid he serves?
I actually used to listen to him off-and-on. He actually does a decent job of inviting on intelligent and well-spoken guests of opposing viewpoints — but his own rhetoric has gotten so shrill, over-the-top and reactionary in the past few years that my blood pressure simply cannot stand it for any more than two or three minutes at a time (during Pledge Drive days on NPR).