Do you think the criminal republicans can survive the midterm elections or are the Dems. going to take over?
463555
No doubt about it, the Repugnantans are goin' down. \n\n- American troops sent to fight and bleed and die under false pretenses?\n- Intelligence reports cherry-picked, ignored, and twisted to make the false case for that war?\n- Journalists bribed to write favorable articles?\n- An undercover CIA agent outed for political purposes?\n- Intervention on behalf of sweatshops on US Pacific territory (Saipan) that enslave women for forced labor, forced prostitution, and FORCED ABORTIONS?\n- Intervention in US Army war profitteering investigations, on behalf of the war profitteers?\n- $8.8 BILLION missing from Iraq reconstruction fund?\n- A prostitute getting a daily White House press pass for over a year?\n- The Department of Homeland Security a haven for pedophiles?\n- No port security plan?\n- Criminal negligence by the federal government before, during and after Katrina?\n- Money laundering?\n- Insider trading through a (supposedly) blind trust?\n- Congressional boondoggle trips to:\n. . -- golf in Scotland\n. . -- cruise on the Mediterranean\n. . -- sunbathe at Pacific island resorts?\n- Huge tax breaks for the oil industry WHILE they are making record-breaking profits by price-gouging consumers?\n- Prisoner abuse at Abu Graib, Guantanimo Bay, and who knows how many hidden gulags in Eastern Europe and the Middle East? \n- The architects of the "K Street Project" put in charge of lobbying reform?\n- Slap-on-the-wrist mining safety enforcement, leading to disaster after disaster?\n- Lie upon Lie upon Lie upon Lie upon LIE? \n\nHad enough? Vote Democrat.\n\n_________________________\nASIDE TO ima...: Yes, the Democrats ARE less corrupt than the Repugnantans by a wide, wide margin
538271
I disagree that it is a given that they will regain control.  I think that it is a given that they will gain seats.  The main problem is that they haven't formulated any plans or agenda.  They attack the Republicans over the war, but they are divided about whether to oppose the war.  To a lesser extent, they are acting the same way on the economy.  Plenty of criticism, but no plans.\n\nThe Democrats can definitely gain seats this fall at this rate, but if they want try to take control of Congress they need to come up with a concrete platform to sell to voters.  So far, leaders like Pelosi and Reid have been too timid to do anything other than criticize.  Coming up with plans opens them up to criticism, and risks alienating voters.\n\nAs for Hilary, I don't see her on the ticket.  She is too much of a polarizing figure.  2008 is a real opportunity for the Democrats to take the swing vote, and even discontented Republicans.  If Hilary is on the ticket, they won't take a single red state, and risk losing a few blue states.  If the Republicans choose McCain, Hilary would be a disastrous candidate.
764739
Its all just so wonderful isn't it?  In all seriousness, it is going to be little scary for the republicans for a while.  Yet, things will calm down and life will move on, and hopefully for the better.\n\nTake Care
741932
It still looks like we're going to take the House, and at the very least get a closer deficit in the Senate.\n\nIts about to get a lot harder for you Republicans to **** up the country like you have been doing.
923565
No, they dont take office until January and even after that they arent going to "cut and run" like everybody says.  The troops will come home much sooner than if the GOP still had control though.
340774
I don't think you will ever see the Republican Party take any ownership of their mistakes, it's always somebody Else's. Talk about a sickness and in denial. It's going to take a new Democratic congress to get to the bottom of it all. From their dirty tricks squads, it also looks as if there is a lot to cover up, maybe too much.
534354
Its getting harder to tell the difference. Republicans are going to get creamed this fall so they should enjoy it while they can.
870673
I think the majority of the U.S. at the moment is republican. For '08 I can't see a democrat winning. If another disliked republican administration takes over than by '12 no doubt dems will hold the white house. Republicans will probably hold house + senate in '08 as well.
935310
I'll go with 33, I think they will take control of the house.\n\nSenate will still be 50-49 GOP
1102266
It will win elections for the Republicans.  The Republicans don't need to do much of anything to win these days they just let the Democrats talk about how they want to give illegals free social benefits, how they want to allow teenage girls to have abortions without even telling their parents, how they want to recognize gay marriage etc, etc, etc.   \n\nNo matter how bad and corrupt a Republican candidate is, he is always better than the immorality and social welfare of the other side.
952885
Well if the Republicans can't twist. lie or cheat their way to being elected they know their business partners will guarantee their being elected.  Sad isn't it?\n\nGod Bless You, Yours and the Southern People.
863311
Those are two reasons why republicans will lose. They don't care at all about the middle class, and they can't even win any wars.
976359
The only way for the country to go from where we are now is up.  The Republicans have proven that they are out of touch with the American public and can not effectively run the country.  So now maybe America will have a fighting chance to improve.
1150785
The Democrats won't take back either the Senate or the House in the 2006 mid-term elections, and even if they did they would likely not try to impeach Bush despite his lengthy record of criminal acts.\n\nThe Democratic party is as complicit in the destruction of America as the Republicans.  It just happens that the Republicans have led the charge, and they've been successful because they've had a clear and aggressive strategy, whereas the Democrats are hapless idiots so terrified of offending anyone that they have abandoned all possibility of leadership.
206042
Not very fun, I fear.\n\nThis election will, no doubt, be very "nasty and brutish" given the way trends have gone in the past several elections.\n\nThe democrats are full of hate for President Bush, and that seems to be pretty much their only platform point, so far.  That won't win the election for them, but it will keep the mud-slinging at a very high level.\n\nAnd the Republicans, sad to say, will no doubt sink right down into the same pig trough.
1132869
It all depends on how badly the current republican guard performs.  If it gets bad enough, people will just vote for change REGARDLESS of what the alternative appears to be.
919055
republicans are demons and the dems are succubi . you must be a mix of them , you succumon . hey , how's it going ?