We have to reach across the aisle...

[dave123williams]

I've noticed recently that Bush's numbers are now just reflecting his religious right base; he's totally lost centrist Republicans.

I know; I used to be one. Now, I'm a registered independent, and wouldn't vote for those bastards if there was a gun to my head. My family's been GOP since it existed, and I won't have anything to do with that party, ever again. They've permanently lost my vote.

Maybe it was how they used a national tragedy to make a naked power-grab, while loudly telling everyone in earshot how moral they were.

Maybe that's what really pissed me off.

They're totally corrupted, and there's a lot of Republicans that feel that the party's been taken over by a bunch of zealot, religious nutjobs. I think it's all about greed; greed for money, and a pathological will-to-power at any cost.

Cloak that agenda in the flag and loudly thump on a bible while you're gouging the country a gallon at a time, and you've got the current state of the party.

But here's what you don't see if you're in to the GOP's talking points: they're weak and prone to failure, people are begining to recognize just how their arrogance is translating in to really, REALLY bad policy, and that spells opportunity for us:

2006 is right around the corner, Bush's coat-tails are shrinking daily (quack, quack, quack - oh, look; it's a lame-duck) and we need a cohesive and progressive answer to these lunatics, to take back the Congress and maybe save the world while doing it.