Bye, Bye, Boehner-- Part II

By Chip Hanlon | June 27, 2008 | 1:53 PM | 1 Comment

As a follow-up to my article a few weeks ago about John Boehner, I wanted to link here to a beautiful article from today's Wall Street Journal on how confused and out-of-touch the Republican Congressional leadership is.  A highlight:

Mr. Boehner's other defining strategy has been to focus the party's energies on the opposition, hammering Democratic policies. He's been rewarded on several issues, most recently the energy debate and a victory on wiretapping authority.

Yet that approach has allowed the party itself to dodge the tougher question of how it will define itself, so necessary to reconnect with conservative voters. "We have not shown the American people that congressional Republicans today are different from the Republicans they voted out," California Republican John Campbell tells me. "Much of our congressional leadership does not believe we did anything wrong or are currently doing anything wrong. But we did, and we are."

...and that's just it, isn't it? How is it reasonable for the GOP to ask for the majority back when the same folks are in leadership, spending money in the same wasteful ways as when the American people voted them out?

Read the rest of that Wall Street Journal article here

 

I thought that the Democrats I thought that the Democrats were the ones with solidarity problems? But that's all changing now that Bill Clinton publicity endorsed Obama via a one-liner press release and Hillary and Obama "United for Change" at a joint rally today. I think a lot of people assume that the end of the Bush Era will solve most of the GOP's issues but Bush's exit is just one step in the overhaul needed for the GOP to become appealing to voters again. Submitted by lharrington on Fri, 2008/06/27 - 3:24pm » reply |