After controlling Congress, after controlling the Supreme Court, after controlling the White House, after controlling the Pentagon, after controlling EVERY regulatory agency, and after the defeat of these obvious, political plays to their regressive base- THE REPUBLICANS WILL STILL BE FAILURES.

Desperation when they have permanently cut taxes on the wealthy and are getting rid of the Inheritance tax?

Desperation when they got Roberts and Alito in the Supreme Court?

Desperation when they deregulated everything?

Desperation when they are enjoying the best Congressional bribery and graft operation in history?

Desperation when they have outsourced our industrial and technological base to foreigners and are selling off our ports, natural resources, and military technology?

Desperation when they can purge anyone off the voter roles at the last minute or use voting machines with not paper trail or those that can be easily hacked?

Desperation when they have a willing military who will torture and pre-emptively attack anyone they like?

Desperation when they can spy on anyone without a warrant, put anyone in jail, or deny you a lawyer or habeus corpus?

Desperation when they refuse to develop alternative fuels and are enjoying the highest profits in history?

I don't see any desperation in the Republican party. It should worry anyone who believes in a strong middle class and a Constitutional form of government.

Don't you find it strange that a Republican strategist would be saying this? Haven't you learned that they do everything for a reason?

They are obviously trying to make Democrats overconfident....and there base jittery so they come out in droves during a off year election. It's the same BS as the talk about impeachment.

I'm certain that Diebolt and the other Republican voter fraud machinery is well oiled and ready to supress the vote of any who are not Republican.

I thought you guys at the DNC were smarter than this. Quit playing into their hands. Stop posting Rove's copy points for free. They can afford to pay the advertising.

Desperation politics is when you think that it is only a game!

During Bushes gubenatorial race in texas in 1990, "there were many nervous and influential republicans questioning why bush rately attempted to engage Richards directly, using surrogate speakers or news releases in political campaign attacks on his opponent."

"The advantage of speaking through a surrogate," claimed one Bush compaign staff insider, "was that we could say sulfurous things about our opponent and put that on record without our candidate taking personal responsibility for it."

Sounds like a pattern to me, so why isn't the DNC researching the past....we always learn from our own history....

"The advantage of speaking through a surrogate," claimed one Bush compaign staff insider, "was that we could say sulfurous things about our opponent and put that on record without our candidate taking personal responsibility for it."

momoaizo,

very astute on your part. bush-rove did that to mccain in 2000. and, the swiftboaters did the same to kerry in 2004. history does repeat it self. only the demos were asleep during the history lesson, twice?

sums up the conservative political ideology in a nutshell:

politics is a "game"

appearances count more than actions

my message to voters: elect representatives who love American Government, not those who hate it.

I don’t think that the GOP is desperate at all simply because behavior proves to me that they don’t give a rat’s ass about what happens to this country. Their strategy is victory for them or Armageddon for all of us. I am fully confident that the state of the union will get infinitely worse than it is at the moment. Mark these words as if they came from the oracle.

The polls for the GOP may be down but not down far enough. The President should have zero approval ratings and Darth Cheney should be jail by now if there were any real justice in this world, and Rove should have been committed to an asylum for the criminally insane a long time ago.

I have not heard anybody talk about the rigged voting machines for a long time and I am certain that the rigged voting machines will be the GOP’s ticket to victory again. I will head to the voting booth in November totally confident that my vote will not count again.

I swear, sometimes I feel as if I am trapped in a never ending Twilight Zone where all your worse nightmares comes true and you can’t wake up from it.

And so it goes.

If the Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy permantly, the Democrats can cancel that order when they get in power.

RE: King George's statement today on his
Prejudice Amendment...

Bush said marriage was fundamental to civilization or something like that. I think he is basing his amendment on the radical rightwing fundamentalists' definition of marriage.

And the fundamentalists' definition of marriage is: Owning a female, or females, of any age.

They want this narrow definition restored, and can't tolerate the definition of marriage becoming even broader. It's just too frustrating to these sexist bigots and homophobes!

There's probably no one listening, but I'm going to rant my own made up political philosophy for the night. While the conservative politicians and their "ideology" are frustrating to say the least, people must realize that the Democratic politicians are no angels either. I wholeheartedly believe in liberalism over conservatism, but we must watch all politicians closely. Make no mistake, whatever their intentions are, politicians are constantly thinking about how to advance their own positions. Most have been in the business for a long time, and know how to manipulate each other and the public to win the votes. Many may have good intentions and may actually be working for the good of the country. The question is, how do we determine who the honest politicians are, when most of us don't personally know them? Whether they are working for themselves or the country, people need to realize that almost every move politicians make is carefully considered. So, even though they are much more agreeable over most of the Republicans, don't think the Democratic politicians are all nice honest people. Well, now that I have sounded insane, I'm done for now.

The Democratic Process Bushwhacked Again

In its latest act of desperation to regain a measure of popularity, the Executive Branch of the United States government has once again resurrected the gay marriage issue. Rallying his homophobic following under the battle cry of., “crush a queer for Christ,” Mr. Bush is attempting to amass support from his final remaining alliance, the radical right. Rather than addressing issues such as the collapse of the economy, the sacrifice of blood and limb for oil and the erosion of American integrity in the global arena, Mr. Bush and his comical sidekick Karl Rove have once again shifted the focus to gay marriage. Had Mr. Bush paid attention to introductory courses in Civics and Government during his halcyon youth, he would have learned that the purpose of a constitution is to prevent a majority from legislating the rights of a minority.

The unfortunate reality of Mr. Bush’s strategy is that it will very likely work. The majority of American voters have absolutely no opinion concerning gay rights. Furthermore, this same constituent has no opinion about Democracy, at all. More Americans voted for the last American Idol than voted in the 2004 Presidential election. In the state of Ohio, the Republican-led Board of Elections undermined the Democratic process during that election by insuring a shortage of voting machines in Democratic strongholds such as college campuses. The Republican Party spends a king’s ransom on demographic studies and human nature analysis. The under forty, cell phone generation is notoriously impatient and apathetic. Although this subculture will stand in line all night awaiting a new video game, when confronted with lines at polling locations they will instead proceed to the comfort of their homes to watch “reality” television, not to be mistaken for the evening news. One cannot allocate blame to the Republican strategists for capitalizing on this vacuum of political consciousness. The conspicuous lack of Democratic backlash to this strategy causes one to wonder if Democratic leaders have found complacency if not profit from the current situation.

When Thomas Jefferson and the authors of the United States Constitution proposed this grand experiment called the United States of America, they described it as, “a government by consent of the governed.” We have, instead, become a government by default of the governed. There is no separate Bill of Rights for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Jewish Americans or Gay Americans. (It is difficult to understand a government that discriminates against a group based upon ‘how they do it’). Perhaps the only way to provoke generations X and Y to exercise their right and responsibility to vote is for the government to begin regulating cell phone minutes and iPod downloads. Despite the fact that the majority of Americans do not participate in the Democratic process, all Americans will share in the blame for the policies of the American government. Until this awareness takes root in the hearts and minds of the majority, the American people will get exactly what they deserve.

--Quinn Stilletto
President, Unwantedchildren.com

Thinking Political vs Looking Political
thinking is wining
looking is desperate and loosing
something sounds right-wing about that?
wining "not" desperate
Banning Gay Marriage made constitutional?
Evolution should have cured that a long time ago
is there nothing sacred anymore?
There is no benefits unless we can vote them in
So "think Political" Vanity doesn't work !

Here we go again - look at the big, bad Republicans (I don't disagree with them being big and bad); and then look at us wonderful Democrats (this is where I strongly disagree). The only thing that the Democratic Party does is beat us up less than the Republicans; how many Democrats came out and actually supported the right of two adults to get married in the recent debate? so few that it is apalling; the Democrats use the lgbt community as much as the Republicans use us; the only difference is that the Democrats pretend that they are with us; sure they are, unless they think it may cost them a vote or two; and then they are all up in front of the camera talking about the sanctity of marriage - please - keep it to yourself.