Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), issued a somber and self-reflective statement following the loss, saying Republicans were “disappointed” and that they need to prepare to run against Democrats campaigning as conservatives.
“Though the Democrats’ task will be more difficult in a November election, the fact is they have pulled off two special election victories with this strategy” in Louisiana and Mississippi “and it should be a concern to all Republicans,” Cole said.
Cole added that “the political environment is such that voters remain pessimistic about the direction of the country and the Republican Party in general. Therefore, Republicans must undertake bold efforts to define a forward-looking agenda that offers the kind of positive change voters are looking for. This is something we can do in cooperation with our presidential nominee, but time is short.”
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Hill: Childers victory gives Dems a third straight takeover
The Hill, a favorite political website of mine posted their post-results piece on last night's election in north Mississippi. The meat of the article has some great quotes by the soon to be fired, in this blogger's opinion, NRCC chairman Tom Cole.
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Maybe next time the republican leadership will listen to some of the experience that's 'out of touch'. Congrats on a big win.
ReplyDeleteOne more puppet for Pelosi, no big deal.
ReplyDeleteI wish the Democrats were half as efficient, effective, and nefarious as Repub fear-mongers make them out to be.
ReplyDelete"One more puppet for Pelosi"?! Whatever. Like the bumper sticker says- "I'm A Democrat- I Don't Belong To Any Organized Party!"
Exactly, that's why I am not worried. Pelosi has proven to be so ineffective as a leader in the House that the Dem's have accomplished very little and what they have accomplished can be undone with in two years.
ReplyDeleteDo a Dem fearmongering = truth telling.
"Do a Dem fearmongering = truth telling"?
ReplyDeleteActually, I believe that goes "Doe, a deer, a female deer"
Although your "two years" comment is right on point- that's about how long it took Bush to turn record surpluses into record deficits. Republicans are ruthlessly efficient in their ability to reverse positive change.
Hiram
ReplyDeleteBush has more in common with you than I. You see I am a conservative, you and Bush are liberals. Unfortunately, Bush is a Republican. I am a conservative first and a Republican second.
And again, Pelosi has failed on every policy she's undertaken, and having Travis Childers there to hold her hand won't change anything.
Fear-mongering? You mean the tactic of feeding the fears of the old and uneducated? Some of these glass houses must get mighty bright early in the morning. Just so I have got it right, Bush=McSame=Satan and Obama=Osama=Rev.Wright
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So the failures of the last two years are Pelosi's fault? Mr Veto has nothing to with that, as well as the obstructionism by the GOP members congress. The Sentae is at a standstill, with LIEberman breaking the tie. The Dems flip 5 states this November and we are a super-majority.
ReplyDeleteBush is the problem and many more GOP representatives will pay at the ballot box in November.
Bush isn't a liberal. He's a delusional Republican filled to the brim with denial, which makes him one of your brethren much more so than one of mine.
ReplyDeleteThere's a great political blogger named Digby who has a marvelous little saying- "Conservatism never fails, it only 'is failed'. By conservatives who 'act like Democrats'."
This has been the traditional conservative mantra, repeated after the downfalls of Nixon, Reagan, Bush The Elder, Gingrich, and is now being trotted out again to explain the glorious failure of Bush The Younger.
Like it or not, er, kingmaker, Bush is a Conservative right down to the bone, which is proven by the fact that he has done the same things elected conservatives have done for the past 40 years, except much, much faster and with a higher degree of blind stupidity.
This is evident to me because I judge Conservatives by what they do, rather than by what they say to people like you to get elected.
Bush has succeeded in everything he has undertaken, proving what a failure Conservative ideas actually are.
Bush=McSame and that is not fearmongering. McSame says he will keep the bush taxs and saty in Iraq. Other than his admittance that global warming is real, I have not heard anything but more of the same.
ReplyDeleteIt all boils down to money. Travis Childers just forced the RCCC to spend more than $1 million on a safe seat in a losing effort. And they'll have to spend at least another $500,000 in November to try to win it back, at which point Travis will have the advantages of incumbency. That's money that they won't be able to spend to defend vulnerable Republican seats in the fall or to try to unseat Democrats who were elected in 2006. Thanks, Travis! Good job well done!
ReplyDeleteHiram
ReplyDeleteYou are proving just how blinded you are by your hatred of Bush. I don't expect you to be very well versed in objective thinking or to have the capacity of abstract thought.
So, I will make it very simple for you. Bush is a Republican, but he's not a conservative. He's a fiscal Liberal as exhibited by his spending like a drunken Kennedy. In fact he's a globalist, just like the Kennedy's and the Rockafeller's, ect.
You are a liberal, Bush is a liberal, you just belong to different parties. Bush has about as much in common with Ronald Reagan as you. He's a liberal Republican, you, John and the rest of the Cotton Mouth crew are liberal Dems.
He is by far the worse of the two because he pretends to be something he is not.
Bush is no liberal he just wastes money at a higher rate than St Ronnie. You do realize that the deficit tripled under Raygun, right?
ReplyDeleteYes Jeff
ReplyDeleteI do realize that Reagan had to totally rebuild the military after Jimma Carter left it in shambles. That takes money. Reagan also had to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Reagan inherited a real recession and his tax cuts spurred the greatest economic growth period in the history of the country.
When you feel like discussing history and economics come see me again, if all you have in DNC talking points, save your breath.
If you mean by growth, millions of people falling under the poverty line, the gap between the rich and the poor growing to its widest margin, the crippling of our labor unions, and the birth of the age of "me" and greed, then yes.
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