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Wow, who would have thought a couple of years ago the Republicans wouold be playing defense in Mississippi?
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Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse?

On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like.

With lots of help from Washington -- including more than $1.3 million in campaign cash and a last-minute visit by Vice President Cheney -- Mississippi Republicans are desperately trying to retain a congressional seat in one of the most reliably conservative districts in the nation.

The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn't be higher, strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a Democrat would be the third in a special election this spring and the second in the Deep South after the May 3 victory of Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-La.).

Rank-and-file Republicans say that would force a day of reckoning for their leadership.

"When you connect three dots in anything, that's a bad thing. This connects the dots. At that point, everybody's got to come together and have a come-to-Jesus meeting," said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), a retiring centrist who will help form a new advisory panel at the National Republican Congressional Committee.

"It's a time of sober reflection and, to some extent, resolve. I hope these special elections are a wake-up call," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.), the leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

Democratic leaders have stopped tamping down expectations and instead have set a new goal for the November elections of establishing a long-lasting majority that could dominate the chamber.

"We will have a strong, confident, predictable Democratic majority to take us forward, and then we will be in 2010, 2012, on the path to a strong Democratic leadership for a long time to come," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Just when Republicans thought they had seen everything, Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) admitted Thursday that he has a 3-year-old daughter from a long-running extramarital affair with a retired Air Force officer. Fossella, who is married and has three young children at home in Staten Island, is also facing drunken-driving charges in Virginia. GOP strategists are debating whether he should resign or announce that he will not seek reelection in November.

Fossella's resignation would mean another special election, this one in the nation's most expensive media market.

Independent analysts agree that a loss Tuesday would leave Republicans with no excuses. They blamed poor candidates in races in Louisiana and Illinois, where the GOP lost a special election for the seat long held by former House speaker J. Dennis Hastert.

"When you connect three dots in anything, that's a bad thing. This connects the dots. At that point, everybody's got to come together and have a come-to-Jesus meeting,"

One wonders what they can offer? More tax cuts for the wealthy? Throwing more government workers out on the street? Another war? Where does the GOP go from here?

To hell I hope

Democrats illegally invaded Congress based on lies. Democrats kept no promises and have created more corruption in Congress.
I guess that 13% approval rating is well deserved.

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Americans want nuclear power now!

The GOP is losing the seats because they wanted to play out the warfare over the welfare, in an economic down turn.

That's a recipe for disaster.

When Joe Sixpack is paying $80 a week of his $300/week paycheck on gas, it's no longer about worrying about insurgents killing him, it's the gas tank.

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Good point. I'm worried that the government will try and "fix" this problem by subsidizing gas prices. That would be a huge disaster, but as we have seen, lowering the gas price through manipulation--eliminating the gas tax--is on the table. Soon, if things continue, the government will probably have to subsidize trucking, or that super important sector of the economy will be in jeopardy

There is no longer a conservative party, the two main parties have both raced to the left.

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"I did but teach the age to quit their cloggs By the plain rules of ancient Liberty, When lo! a barbarous noise surrounded me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs." John Milton
The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
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What is really going to blow your mind, patriot, is when the Democrats have to play defense in California in November because all the Hillary voters will pick liberal McCain over Obama.

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"...and there is profuse adornment in the way of semi-tropical shrubs and flowers; and in one part is a piece of native wild-wood, left just as it grew, and, therefore, perfect in its charm. Everything about this cemetery suggests the hand of the national Government."

I want all you liberatards to go on thinking you got it made in the shade. Then the election night will be all that much darker for you. Hopefully millions of you will commit mass suicide.

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OBAMA SUPPORTS KILLING LIVE BABIES!! NOT JUST UNBORN BABIES BUT LIVE BABIES!!


"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

I want you and your stupid homophobic racists conservatards to SHUT THE FUCK UPand go back to fucking your sister.