Peggy Noonan has jumped on the Republican Party is a mess bandwagon after the recent defeat in the Mississippi special election. She does it with her usual style and some wit. There's nothing new here, any casual observer knows that Bush and the Republican leadership have killed whatever hopes this generation of Republicans had of continuing their reign.
But that, to a large degree, is the history of things. Mankind never met a victory it couldn't screw up. Call it cyclical, call it pendulum swinging, call it action/reaction. Things do shift back and forth, even, as is the current case there are very few real differences between the two parties.
The Democrats will score big this fall and they will jump up and down and trumpet what's to come. But just like when the Pelosi gang took over last year, we won't see much change. There is too much invested in playing the game, (and it is too lucrative) than there is advancing any real agenda.
Tom Davis's analogy of the Republican party as an "airplane flying right into a mountain" is as apt as it is creepy. But they've been this from the beginning with their underlying assumption that they could do whatever they want and most folks won't pay attention, as long as they keep preaching the same old same old.
I hate to say it, because I'm not one to be a big fan of the "American people" as in "The American people believe.... fill in the blank," but the American people took their measure of whom they thought was going to be their hero in George W, and found him sorely lacking. Those who tried to prop him up for so long and keep the myth going are now paying the price.
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