Today's GOP: Greed Over Principle
TPMmuckraker has put together a nice analysis detailing total Republican losses from scandal and complacency. Here's TPM's Paul Kiel:
Not only is it the courageous thing to do, but given the weakened position of the Republicans, it should be the easy and obvious thing to do.
As The New York Times notes this morning, scandal has pursued them into 2007. “The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness,” says one Republican strategist.Hint, hint to Congressional Democrats - you have nothing to fear from standing up to Dubya and his Republican allies.
Not only is it the courageous thing to do, but given the weakened position of the Republicans, it should be the easy and obvious thing to do.