A Pound For A Bu$h-ter Brown Off The Bus

by pessimist

David Broder is up to his GOP tricks again! He's trying to get the Democratic Party to follow a path that has failed them more than it has succeeded. The fact that the GOP is allowing Broder to pursue this strategy is a sign that they are getting desperate to hang on to the power they usurped.

But there are many signs that the GOP may not get away with this one more time. Without Tom DeLay around to hammer incalcitrant and reluctant GOP moderates into line, Dennis Hastert is losing control of party discipline:

Michael Franc, a former top aide to the House Republican leadership, said DeLay’s removal allowed conservatives to push their budget-cutting plans to the top of the Republican agenda. DeLay had been among those most resistant to eliminating pork-barrel projects from the highway bill or delaying the effective date of the prescription drug program. "In the last two or three weeks there has been an increasing restlessness among conservatives, mostly about the open-ended (financial) response to Katrina," said Franc, now with the Heritage Foundation, another think tank considered conservative. "There’s a growing number of conservative voters coming to the conclusion that Republicans have lost their way." To that end, many GOP lawmakers are talking about deeper budget cuts than party leaders favor.

True Conservatives are starting to ask uncomfortable questions, such as why they should continue to poor good money after bad into Halliburton's bank accounts.

Some see the end of the GOP, and with scandals becoming more of an issue at the state level, there is some merit to that belief. Symoblic efforts to demonstrate a concern for high energy costs plays well also. In any case, what is one to make of GOP officials kow-towing to organized labor? They have to run on SOMETHING now that Bu$h'$ tax-cutting agenda isn't working anymore if they expect to get elected:

The poll, of 807 adults nationwide from Oct. 8-10, by Hart Research, showed a 67 percent-24 percent margin against the spending cut-tax cut package, which was described but without political labels. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, pollster Guy Molyneux said.

Democrats, who were 42 percent of the sample, called the spending cut-tax cut package a “wrong priority”by an 84-11 margin, while independents–23 percent of respondents–opposed it 68-22. Republicans also opposed it 45-42, but the 21 percent who called themselves “cconservative Republicans” supported the Bush-GOP tax-cut-spending-cut package by a 52-36 percent score. The 13 percent identifying themselves as moderates opposed it, 26-60.

White evangelical voters–Bush’s base, opposed the tax cut-spending cut package by a 55-39 percent margin, the poll said. They were 17 percent of resspondents. Non-evangelical Protestants (40 percent) opposed it 60-31 and White Catholics opposed it 66-22. Eighty-six percent of African-Americans opposed the package as did 59 percent of Hispanics. Each group was 11 percent of the sample.

Religious-based polling also shows that King George's Noo Clothes are being seen for what they are - threadbare:

President George W. Bush receives his lowest positive job performance rating recorded by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute in a poll released Saturday. According to the national poll, the President's favorable job performance rating is 42-percent. This is down from 52.3-percent in April 2005, 57.7-percent in April 2004, 53.2-percent in February 2004, 58.4-percent in October 2003, 77.9-percent in April 2003 and 65.1-percent in March 2003. Among Hispanics, President Bush received a 20.7-percent favorable rating while whites provided 46.7-percent and African-Americans provided a positive rating of 19.8-percent.

Senator Barak Obama sees that the inroads made by the GOP into the Democrats stronghold of black voters has been reversed by FEMA's poor hurricane relief performance, which is a sign that the Democrats are getting things back on an even keel again - unlike the GOP, whose greed for power and wealth are proving to be their undoing.

But despite desperate attempts by the GOP to manufacture a 2008 presidential race between Hillary and Condi, the presidency is still seen as a man's job - even if the 'right' woman can play the game.

No matter who does run, however, I seriously doubt that the nation would chose another George W. Bu$h to lead us.

We aren't alone in this! Over across The Pond, First Lap Poodle Tony Blair is in Double-Dutch trouble with the British people - and this report isn't goin to help him one little bit.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

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