Report: GOP "Broke," Expecting To Lose More House Seats

[CatWoman]

By Greg Sargent - September 25, 2007, 12:11PM
Last week we brought you word that GOP House leader John Boehner and NRCC chief Tom Cole were locked in a power struggle for control of the NRCC amid increasing signs that NRCC strategists are in denial about just how bad the 2008 map looks for them.

Now there's more. Top Republicans are conceding that the NRCC is all but broke and that another bloodletting is all but certain. As GOP Rep. Ray LaHood puts it with startling candor: “When you look at what’s going on in the House, the prospects for getting back on track are pretty dim at the moment."

Ouch.

Late Update: The latest numbers from the party committees tell the story:

"At the end of August, the National Republican Congressional Committee reported only $1.6 million cash on hand, with $4 million in debt. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, by comparison, had banked over $22 million, with only $3 million in debt."
In other words, the DCCC has around $19 million, while the NRCC is in the red

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/report_gop_broke_expecting_to_lose_more_house_seats.php

[CottonBear]

1. GOP bloodletting. Excellent news!

Bwahahahahaha! :evilgrin:

:hi: Hi CW!

[madokie]

2. I liked that word choice too

[frogcycle]

3. didn't realize they actually had blood n/t

[KittyWampus]

5. i think it's ice water

[tekisui]

15. Not warm-blooded, cold blood, like a reptile.

[CatWoman]

11. CB,

Talked to Burythehatchet yesterday.

He feels it's time for another get together :)

I'll post a thread in the Georgia forum presently. :hi:

[CottonBear]

21. Sounds great! It's been too long!

I'll check the Georgaia Forum. I only have internet at work for now. Hopefully, we'll find a date that will work for all of us. I like the last place that we met in Atlanta.
:hi:

[NoodleBoy]

4. wow, they're screwed if there are any swingable special elections

If they were in this state two years ago, Paul Hackett and Francine Busby would be serving in Congress right now.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Their ELECTION FRAUD Operation Is Still Mostly Intact

Though some of the vote-stealing machines that robbed Busby of his election have been de-certified.

[NoodleBoy]

9. yeah, too bad they defrauded us out of a Congressional majority in 2006.

oh, wait.

[defendandprotect]

13. Can we bill the GOP for the loss of the SURPLUS + the costs of the war, PLEASE . .. ?????

[NoodleBoy]

14. I think we'd also have to extract how much of the world's respect we lost under them

but that might only be payable in tears.

[defendandprotect]

20. Agree with your so well expressed sadness ---

[mark414]

7. i'd say it's about time for another 40 year super majority?

the only good thing bush has ever done!

although this time, we can't let bad actors and fake cowboys come in and fuck it all up for us

[TlalocW]

8. Oh, those nutty fiscally responsible republicans

I wonder if current congress-critters have access to the NRCC funds because a rash of republican house members lawyering up and making withdraws to pay their attorneys would explain the situation they're in.

TlalocW

[gatorboy]

10. As Grover Norquist would say...

It's time to run the bathwater.

[defendandprotect]

12. Anyone think that Gingrich for Prez + a new contract on America will bring in $$$$$ ---

[Parche]

16. More Like Our Country Is Broke

Because of these nifnods.........


:hi:
OH MEOW

[CatWoman]

19. what a cute kitten

:hi:

[malaise]

17. Boooohooooooooooooo

Cry me a river!!!
remove link

[DFW]

18. GOP broke? horseshit

This may be what they're presenting to the public, but their major contributors
just got their pockets stuffed with most of our tax money, and you had better
believe it is getting funneled right back into the GOP, whether legally or not,
and whether we see it or not.

Rove and Cheney let their piggy banks go empty? Evil they are. Stupid they are not.