Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Welcome to 2006
by Lee

Over at The Corner, Larry Kudlow gets it exactly right.

Last night’s election results were a stinging blow to the Republican party. Undoubtedly Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Rahm Emmanuel are in very good moods today. This off-year election raises the question about a Democratic sweep in next year’s mid-term elections.

While the GOP is attacking oil companies and perhaps reneging on tax-cut extenders, without offering any strong budget-cutting plan, the Dems are thinking about putting together their own Contract with America. While Democrats still have to craft a coherent message, and while their glee may yet be premature, the 2005 election message is clear: It’s time to get serious. This is a Republican problem. GOP pundits who try to downplay these election results are just plain wrong.

I tuned in to Limbaugh this morning to hear his take on the elections, and he was making the argument that this is nothing to worry about, that these were all local races, blah blah blah.  In and of itself this may be true, but when you take this in conjunction with the basement-level approval ratings that the president and Congress now rate and this spells serious trouble for the GOP next year.  Bush faces the serious risk of spending the last two years of his presidency as an utterly inept lame duck.  If the GOP wants to get things done they need to start making some major changes, and soon.

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