Says it all, really
Sep. 5th, 2006 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieFrom today's article on the battle for Congress this fall:
"...Democrats in both the House and Senate say they will push for votes of no confidence in Rumsfeld.
The votes, Democrats say, will be designed to draw attention to mistakes that have been made in the war. They also hope that Republicans, especially those such as Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., who represent moderate districts, will have a difficult time voting to support Rumsfeld.
Republicans said they would vigorously fight any attempt to bring the vote to the floor. The reason, one aide told Congressional Quarterly: "It would shift the debate from one over timetables to competence and accountability, which aren't our strong suits in this war.""
Indeed. Competence and accountability are definitely not hallmarks of this administration or the Republican-led Congress.
In other news, Karl Rove has targeted Washington state as one of the six key states the Republican party will pour money into races for, in hopes of maintaining their control of Congress. For me, that's a big strike against every Republican candidate for Congress in this state. If Rove wants them in, I don't.
Rove's support is not enough for me to categorically decide against every Republican candidate, but it surely lends weight to the argument that a vote for a Republican candidate for Congress is a vote in support of continuing overwhelming incompetence and corruption. That's something that should make every voter think twice. Maybe someday the Republican party can go back to being a party of fiscal responsibility and small government - but right now, it's decidedly not.
"...Democrats in both the House and Senate say they will push for votes of no confidence in Rumsfeld.
The votes, Democrats say, will be designed to draw attention to mistakes that have been made in the war. They also hope that Republicans, especially those such as Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., who represent moderate districts, will have a difficult time voting to support Rumsfeld.
Republicans said they would vigorously fight any attempt to bring the vote to the floor. The reason, one aide told Congressional Quarterly: "It would shift the debate from one over timetables to competence and accountability, which aren't our strong suits in this war.""
Indeed. Competence and accountability are definitely not hallmarks of this administration or the Republican-led Congress.
In other news, Karl Rove has targeted Washington state as one of the six key states the Republican party will pour money into races for, in hopes of maintaining their control of Congress. For me, that's a big strike against every Republican candidate for Congress in this state. If Rove wants them in, I don't.
Rove's support is not enough for me to categorically decide against every Republican candidate, but it surely lends weight to the argument that a vote for a Republican candidate for Congress is a vote in support of continuing overwhelming incompetence and corruption. That's something that should make every voter think twice. Maybe someday the Republican party can go back to being a party of fiscal responsibility and small government - but right now, it's decidedly not.
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Date: 2006-09-05 11:55 pm (UTC)From everything I've seen, Santorum is seriously on the ropes this time - too many chickens coming home to roost. And may I say that a textbook illustration of "hubris" - in all its strict Greek drama sense - couldn't star a much more deserving fellow if that is indeed how it goes.