the sense of exhaustion at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601375.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Run-Down Republicans
Where Is the GOP's Agenda?

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, April 7, 2006

Imagine that: Tom DeLay speaking truth to power.

"We don't have an agreed agenda," DeLay told a group of sympathetic reporters this week. "Breaking up our leadership has taken its toll."

Self-serving? Absolutely. DeLay is saying the Republicans have been in a mess ever since he stopped being majority leader. But with his comment on the GOP's agenda shortfall, The Hammer hit the nail on the head.

DeLay's fall is not the moment's most striking political event. His departure could have been foreseen at least a year ago, when he apologized for his "inartful" attacks on the federal judiciary after Terri Schiavo's death. Once DeLay was forced to say he was sorry about anything , you knew his days were numbered.

No, the most important development is the collapse of purpose in the Republican Party and the sense of exhaustion at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Other than the desperate scramble to make something go right in Iraq, our national government seems to have no energy, no coherence and no sense of direction.

[Oceansaway]

1. most of em need

proctologists....

[dajoki]

2. LOL

[sweetheart]

4. deep, wide, bunker busting...

divine shrake
bovine shrike
banal strike.
very loude mike,

bunker busting bike,
just like he liked,
licking her mike,
skewered on venus'fg spike.

Athena's bike,
a bit warlike,
Hessian Osterreich,
not Charlie Vike,
Death follows time,
wine hallows vine.

[babylonsister]

3. Boo-fuckin'-hoo.They made their bed. nt

[Warpy]

5. All of their ideas are turning to the shit we said they would

and all that remains now are the denouements of depression and world war.

Maybe next time people will listen to us.

Nah.

[dajoki]

7. "Nah"--You're probably correct n/t

[pretzel4gore]

6. exhaustion? they should work for a living....

those fukkin boors who've let bush run the country into the mud did it the easy way, by indulging themselves on all the free money abetting bush has bestowed on them......peter jenning has $50 million in the bank, rumsmell has a couple hundred.....and what have either of those examples ever done that a hanger-on at the local beer parlour couldn't do?