Mississippi Gets the Change They Deserve
Posted by Michael Link on May 14, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Last night -- in a special election -- Democrats picked up another House seat in yet another district that has been reliably Republican for over a decade. As one GOP leadership aide put it, if they lost this one, they'd be looking for windows to jump out of.
You can bet it's going to shake up some House Republicans for the rest of the week. They're still spinning, but it's pretty obvious that they phoned this one in. Mostly, the NRCC tells Republicans not to rely on them to help out... at all:
I encourage all Republican candidates, whether incumbents or challengers, to take stock of their campaigns and position themselves for challenging campaigns this fall by building the financial resources and grassroots networks that offer them the opportunity and ability to communicate, energize and turn out voters this election.
That translates to: don't rely on the NRCC to save you.
So now the House Republicans are going to do the same soul-searching that they did the last time they lost a seat like this one. And the time before that. But what's going to change? Are they going to stop blocking Democratic proposals in the interest of getting things done? Unlikely. Will they stop politicizing everything, to the point that they're voting against Mother's Day? Doubt it.
Instead, they'll probably just come up with another slogan. Nothing against slogans, of course, but slogans don't distract people from blocking children's health care or standing with Bush on issue after issue.
Updated by Matt Ortega: The Hill:
The sky is falling on House Republicans and there is no sign of it letting up.The GOP loss in Mississippi’s special election Tuesday is the strongest sign yet that the Republican Party is in shambles. And while some Republicans see a light at the end of the tunnel, that light more likely represents the Democratic train that is primed to mow down more Republicans in November.
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