David Brooks: Republicans will lose the House

[CatWoman]

On "Face The Nation," Sunday, David Brooks who does have good contacts inside the administration somberly reported that "House Republicans," are predicting they will lose the House in '06.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/03.html#a7773

[Flabbergasted]

1. Amen!

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Aw, crap

And here I thought we had a shot.

Bobo Brooks, the nearsighted pundit, is wrong about everything, I gotta believe he's wrong about this too. Damn!

[MasonJar]

3. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch. Pray it's true.

[AX10]

4. The governorships too.

The Senate is also a real possibility. If a strong anti-GOP wave comes in, just as strong as the anti-incumbent tidal wave of 1994, both houses will be under Democratic control.

House: 210-239
Senate: 47-53
Gov: 26-30
Legislatures: 51%-58%

[Atman]

5. Did you hear Tweety tonight?

Pat Buchanan and the Dem dude were both in agreement that the Republicans have totally screwed the pooch, and just don't get it. Exactly what we've been saying here. Tweety was incredulous -- "But the economy is doing great!" To which they both told him he was full of it, and that it is only doing great "for guys like you and me, maybe 20% of the country, but the rest of American, the working people, they're seeing their jobs going to cheap immigrant labor, companies bail on their retirement obligations, wages going down." It was quite the site to see...so Tweety had to bring up Bill Clinton murdering people. Seriously. Even Pat called bullshit on that ploy. It was a sight to behold!

[CatWoman]

8. damn, damn, double damn

I missed that!!!

[AX10]

19. good to hear.

[durrrty libby]

21. Ol Pat just couldn’t bring himself to actually say it was BS.

He said …..that "was going around the bend."

Come on Pat, practice saying “lie” It is a very simple straight forward word.

You former kneepad-wearers need to know how to say it, repeat often…...out loud…....in front of a camera.

[heirs_of_liberty]

26. Yeah, and if GM wasn't sellin Humvies like hotcakes...

What a great multinational, Bahamas and Cayman Island British Imperial Mercantile Monopolist Tory Cabal 'global' economy for Her august racist-eugenic Anglican Fascist Crusader Furher-Princes and their MI5-MI6=CIA Mafiosi pals....

[katty]

6. O, Yeah!

[ShortnFiery]

24. I want to believe!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. I hope he's right. How many seats would have to change parties to

give a Dem majority?

[CatWoman]

15. lots of info here

15 in the house

http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/001328.php

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

30. So does that mean 15 actual seats would have to change, or 8, to make

a net change of 16? Sorry to be obtuse. Article says net 15 implying 8 ought to do it.

[LiberalinNC]

9. Sounds good to me!

[zbdent]

10. Dumbya's probably writing out a check right now

to a bunch of terrorists . . . "Need something . . . quick!"

[Initech]

11. There would honestly be no sweeter justice done.

Fuck the election stealers on this one. One can only hope!

[EST]

12. Don't get excited.

Brooks has never been right on any call he's made. Why he has a job, especially one wherein he is expected to have at least a glimmer of credibility, is a complete mystery.

[megatherium]

13. This of course would be great. But I'll settle for the Indiana 9th

district, where a wingnut millionaire with a high school education won in 2004 with a razor thin margin after the Republicans poured $3.1 million into the race. This is southern Indiana, a district identified in 2004 as the most vulnerable House seat in the country. The Democrats were able to counter the Republicans with $2 million. It wasn't enough.

[saltpoint]

27. Hi, megatherium. Is that Baron Hill's district?

Because I like Baron Hill.

It would be terrific to see the Hoosier State send more Democrats to Washington. Julia Carson is a treasure, but she needs some supportive company.

[megatherium]

28. Yes, it was Baron Hill's district, but he lost to Mike Sodrel.

This is the district held for many years by Lee Hamilton, a Democrat who is a well-regarded foreign policy expert and who co-chaired the 9/11 commission.

I believe Hill is running to reclaim his seat.

[saltpoint]

29. I appreciate the update very much. I will keep an eye out for that

race in coming months and I hope Baron Hill retakes it.

Thanks for the info.

[unblock]

14. let's hear it for SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES!

once the banana republicans start to think like this, the will retire in droves.

nothing sucks more than going from committee chairman to senior minority party member.

[Kingshakabobo]

16. I'm going shopping for pitch-forks and torches. n/t

[kurth]

17. 7 months is a long time

Brooks is telling them to get their wedge issues ready.

[AX10]

20. We should be ready too.

[cliss]

18. Now, here's the best part of this.

Bush and his group have probably heard this already. They're preparing for the worst. Their analysts have given them the harsh reality: they're going to lose in November. There's nothing they can do about it because

a) the war in Iraq won't improve in time for November

b) gas prices will probably go up, and Bush's ratings always go down

In the meantime, watch them go through a meltdown, maybe right on TV!!! They'll be nervous wrecks, make mistake after mistake (can they make more?), and anger the people even more!!

Looking forward to this.

[heirs_of_liberty]

22. These are Christian-Fascist Tory Conservatives not 'republicans'

A Republican opposes the establishment of religious socialism as any legitimate form of political special interest or lobby.

A Republican would oppose the establishment of supposedly non-sectarian 'Christian' (NAZI) Fascism in government.

A Republican would remain steadfastly opposed and never in alliance with an undemocratic Tory Conservative country like Great Britain which is ruled by noble unelected lordly monopolist crusader crime-licensing global criminal mafiosi beholden to a Germanic racist-eugenic tribal mafia warlord family. (the degenerate, criminal, thieving Saxe-Cobourg Gotha criminal mafia dynasty)

A Republican would never support, protect, defend or ally his government with any nation based upon established religious fascism EG: Great Britain(Anglicanism), Saudi Arabia, Iran(Islamism), Rome (Catholicism) or Israel(Zionism).

A Republican would be screaming in outrage at any administration that, in the process of supposedly democratic 'nation building' in Iraq or Afghanistan would allow the Constitutional Abomination of religious-socialist 'political parties' to be established and voted for like the Center Party(Roman Catholic), or the CSVD(Protestants) and NSDAP (NAZI Christians) Parties in 1930's Germany's deeply flawed Weimar disaster. (Sunni and Shiite Parties? -sweet Jesus, save us all!)

"Today Christians rule Germany! I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess..." - *The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939

A $250 Billion war on a $5 tyrant...

[Beetwasher]

23. Fuck, Brooks Is ALWAYS WRONG!!!

Damn, I thought we had a chance, but if Brooks is saying this...

[saltpoint]

25. I don't know if Brooks is playing games here or not, but his sources

might be telling it plain and true.

I would be plum delighted if Ms. Pelosi's role was heightened after November 7th.

Go, Dems.