There should be a website (maybe there is one) for monitoring all the ways in which the Republicans are using their majority in both houses of Congress to marginalize the Democrats from the political process. Meetings held in basements, lights shut off in the middle, are things we've witnessed that obviously pass as proper parliamentary procedure in the GOP.
So when the Dems force a closed Senate session to discuss something as, well important, as the basis the president had for bringing the country to war; and the Republicans complain bitterly; it is very hard to take the GOP lawmakers seriously. The war in Iraq is costing us well over $200 billion in financial terms and well over 2,000 American lives (and countless Iraqi lives) in human terms. Seems ot me it's something that ought to be questioned, again and again.
Though it's hard to be sympathetic, the Republicans are having a hard time these days. There are indictments, mutterings of more indictments, a spectactularly failed Supreme Court nomination followed closely by one that threw down the gauntlet to a nasty fight. The president's approval rating is the worst it's ever been, and let's face it, things are not going all that well anywhere. This at a time when the Republicans, you would think, have everything they need to make all the good things they believe in happen.
I have to think that the Red States of Florida and Louisiana are wondering whether this Kyoto Accord was such a bad thing, considering the apparent climate changes.
Nixon resigned, we are told, when the Republicans turned on him. Cheney, no fool, is not going to give his Republican colleagues any opportunity or reason to put pressure on the president.
The guest last night at the Colbert Report said that Bush was a great president, perhaps the greatest. It really takes some imagination, or self-delusion to believe that. I think he's going down as one of the very worst, and that it'll take the Republican party a long time to prove to the American people they can do better.
Which they can, by the way. There are lots of good, credible, smart, honest Republicans who would make great presidents, Supreme Court justices, etc. But let's be smart enough to realize that none of them is conservative.
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