Can the R's regain lost ground...?

So, the President starts dropping just a few weeks after an ineffective State of the Union. In some polls he dips below 40 percent, truly dangerous territory. It seems like their years of bad governance has finally caught up with them. That the American people are focusing more on deeds, not words. But can the ruthless pols running the GOP these days turn this thing around and snatch a victory from what could be a near-certain defeat?

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But given that in Mid-February the President has dropped below 40 percent, their weak agenda has nowhere to go, foreign policy and security issues are as likely to be as damaging to them as helpful, and the criminal cases against their leadership will spread and deepen, I think even the skeptics have to now acknowledge that 2006 is likely to become an historically bad year for the governing party.

"their years of bad governance has finally caught up with them...?" i don't effing think so...

"can the ruthless pols . . . turn this thing around...?" definitely... and, lest you think otherwise, mr. simon rosenberg, they are doing just that... cuz, simon, if it was about poll numbers, george and his posse would already be gone...

"their weak agenda has nowhere to go..." their "weak" agenda, as you define it, mr. rosenberg - rising energy costs, the medicare rx debacle, more photos from abu ghraib, domestic warrantless spying, no consensus on immigration issues, the rise in global terrorism, the continuing nightmare of iraq, the slowing economy, and on and on - is STRONG in the very area it was designed for: the creation of FEAR, leading to bushco's unparallelled seizure of power and the emasculation of our cherished separation of powers...

IF we manage to get through the 2006 elections without a serious domestic terrorist incident, one that gives bush and his gang license to suspend the constitution OFFICIALLY rather than the ad hoc suspension that's happened so far, we will be able to consider ourselves DAMN LUCKY... i, for one, am not holding my breath...

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