{"id":9739,"date":"2006-11-08T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/08\/jaccuse-3.html"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:46:27","slug":"jaccuse_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/jaccuse_3.html","title":{"rendered":"J’accuse!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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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
\nfrom 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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! <\/em>How can such a nation, or party, endure?<\/p>\n

If only we’d had real one-party rule<\/em> one-party rule<\/a> over the last six years, we wouldn’t be waking up to a Democratic majority in the House, I can tell you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133979,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/so-is-the-senate-done-with-aca-repeal-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":9739,"position":0},"title":"So is the Senate done with ACA repeal NOW?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jul-17 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Short answer: not as long as the GOP holds a Senate majority.Longer answer: For the moment, probably yes. 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