Democrats will be controlling all 3 branches of govt for years and years....

[Postman]

The current republican party has self-destructed in its greed, corruption and incompetence.

Henry Waxman's committee alone will be showing the American people just how much of a disaster this Bush crowd is/has been from soup to nuts....

Have you noticed while watching Waxman's Committee interrogate these republican crooks just how many empty seats there are on the republican side of the Committee?? None of them want to be associated with the shit that has gone down on their watch....

It's over for the republicans. Take it to the bank.

They could be running Jesus Christ for President and it wouldn't make a difference. It's over.

[MadBadger]

1. Don't get ahead of yourself.

[Postman]

2. Who are they gonna nominate? Rudy??? Bring em on..

He's got soo much baggage he should rename himself Samsonite.

[MadBadger]

3. Dont underestimate Rudy's chances

[Postman]

13. Chances of what? Wearing a dress? Filling potholes with Firemen's remains?

Hiring corrupt police commissioners like Bernard Kerik?

He lasts 6 months in the race, maybe.

[MadBadger]

14. ill say it again. If he wins the nomination, watch out for Rudy in NJ and PA.

There is a chance that a state like NJ would become a swing state if Rudy was the nomination.

[piedmont]

23. Uh, this is the same electorate that voted for Bush. TWICE!

Yeah, I know Gore should have won it 2000, and arguably DID win it, but good lord, it shouldn't even have been close!

[BattyDem]

4. They don't have a candidate, but they still have Diebold

:-(

[elocs]

8. Right, I thought the same thing after Watergate too. It ain't over til it's over.

Save the strutting for 20 years from now after which time the Democrats have won and kept control of everything and been successful in doing it.

[Raine]

5. First we need a candidate

like Al Gore who can actually get into the Whitehouse until then we can only control two houses.

[Schema Thing]

6. True, except...

I see the potential for us dems to fuck it up royally at every turn.

[Solo_in_MD]

7. In four years, Chimpy will not matter.

[rpannier]

9. If the next nominee chooses peter schrum to be their advisor

we're finished.

[mmonk]

10. You understimate them.

The people aren't going to blame the republican party for bush or "punish" them because there is so much the average person is unaware of. Your average everyday working person doesn't know much if anything about the Waxman hearings.

[azurnoir]

11. Hope your right

but people said that when Nixon resigned too, it only took 5 years and an incident in Iran to change all that. The pukes know fear is the key to their power and they use it.

[MadBadger]

12. Watch out for Rudy in the Northeast, specifically states like NJ and PA

If he gets the nomination.

[BattyDem]

15. I can't speak for NJ as a whole, but ...

Northeast NJ is close enough to NYC (many residents are former NYers or they work there) to remember his dictatorial ways. I don't expect him to do well in this part of the state. Many people say this about him: "He was good on 9/11, but I can't stand him!"

On edit: Forgot to mention ... I was talking politics with two die-hard Republican relatives yesterday and both said they wouldn't vote for Rudy.

[FogerRox]

27. Ditto

[w4rma]

16. Don't get cocky. Both of our Democratic "frontrunners" will have trouble in the general election.

If you support either of them you had better be ready for a serious fight for the Presidency and all the way down every ticket if one of them wins the nomination.

[sandyd921]

17. Of course the repukes

will be leaving us with the huge mess they have purposely created to sabotage the progressive agenda. These include deficits out the yazoo for decades to come and sleeper cells they've inserted into the civil service in every department of the federal government. I'm worried about the cumulative effects of these on Democrats' performance and how this will impact our long-term prospects. I am also concerned about how these factors might cripple our ability to re-invigorate democracy in this country. :scared:

[pearl]

18. I won't rest until

every stinking one of them is out of office. And they have to change the name of their party because Republican has so much filth and shame.

[sandyd921]

20. The sooner they're gone the better.

Impeach, indict, and imprison every last corrupt one of them!

[Blue-Jay]

19. I have 12 chickens.

Sure, none of them have hatched yet, but by my count, there are an even DOZEN.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

21. I Wish It Were So, But The American People Are Far More Fickle Then Such Obviousness Would Dictate.

We might so easily be able to see everything right in front of us and believe based on what we see that the disgraces are so apparent that the thought of voting republican would turn stomachs. But the reality is that elections and their outcomes are far more complex and unpredictable then our perception of things would dictate.

The American people can latch on to the silliest of concepts when choosing a candidate to vote for. It seems like we should have it in the bag; but we don't. We still have a huge mountain to climb to ensure victory a few Novembers from now and by no stretch of the imagination is the GOP out of the picture. In fact, I'm of the opinion they are still the favorites to win right now unless we really find the recipe for selling our platform correctly to the American people. As much as you think Americans have soured to the GOP, I still haven't seen the majority of average Joe and Jane's perceptions change as they relate to the Democratic Party. One party losing favor does not mean one party has gained favor. We still need to get our honorable message out to the mass population better and defend it from smear more readily. We aren't close to being there yet but I hope with all my heart that come a few Novembers from now the American people will vote in masses for our candidate. But this talk of it being over for the republicans? That's an extremely dangerous mindset to have at this point and is just patently false.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. Be careful. Those chickens don't always hatch.

[Cirque du So-What]

24. I'm still concerned about the Supreme Court

I hope all of the 'liberals' hang on until Little Boots leaves office. I also wonder about the possibility of increasing the size of the SC to 11 or even 13. It would require passage in the Senate, which may be increasingly possible after elections next year. More SC Justices would decrease the ability of successive Presidents to swing the balance toward 'urinary executive' proponents and similar RW flying monkeys.

[johnfunk]

25. The Supremos? Nothing a discreet impeachment (or two) and conviction can't fix

Scalia first, then Thomas, then Alito, then John "Damian" Roberts.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. It's still very possible for the Democrats to not even win the White House in 08. I wouldn't

count the chickens yet, although in a sane world, the Republicans will lose in a landslide of epic, historic, proportions.

[donco6]

28. "Sane world" being the key.

Although signs are hopeful that some sense of sanity is returning.

I followed a little pickup today with every anti-Bush sticker ever made. When I passed, I honked and gave him a thumbs up. He and wife(?) waved and laughed. Made my day. Hopefully his, too.