Reply #2: Do not discount this trend. [View All]

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I have a friend who is a crackerjack lawyer and one fart smeller...errm...smart feller. ;-)

He's a small-town lawyer, small-town prosecutor in one town(Former NJ Deputy Attorney General) and municipal attorney in two others. He works with repukes every day, and he is so well-respected by them that when he ran for State Assembly a couple of years ago, they couldn't think of one bad thing to say about him. That's a candidate! ;-)

He says that he is hearing from repukes, all the time, horror and revulsion about what is being done. Real remorse. "I didn't vote for this!" We are talking about some pretty rock-ribbed repukes, too, albeit not frothing fringe fundies.

What it looks like here is the real possibility of some serious gains in the 2006 elections, as more moderate repukes confront their revulsion and vote for a more moderate congress. Is the Senate out of the question? No. Is the House out of the question? Dare I dream?

A lot is going to hinge on DeLay's legal problems. If he gets his dick in the legal woodchipper, it is very unlikely that anyone else has the ability and the balls to hold together his political machine.