I hope the Republicans can pull out a win in the Massachusetts special election January 19th, though.

And in that case, the recriminations for allowing Senate passage before Christmas could echo for decades if not millennia – especially if the House approved the Senate bill without amendment.

Which is a very real danger. Pelosi and her cohorts in their fanaticism to pass SOMETHING may decide that the Senate bill is better trusting a conference bill to pass, especially if public opinion worsens further when people actually read and examine the Senate bill.

He was the leader of the Republican Party. He was supposed to drive the agenda. We’re where we are in large measure because of GWB.

I still think that Bill Frist deserves to be stuck in the room in the Kingdom of Heaven next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity, but I’d like to add to that: Mitch McConnell deserves the room on the other side of the noisy ice machine.

They’ve never planned to do anything but watch this thing pass from the start…and help when the Democrats would allow them to participate…we are where we are because we have a bunch of losers for leaders who are incapable of mustering the stomach for a fight!

of course…it’s the fault of people like me, and mbecker, and jaded, and scope for raising hell about it…we don’t dare blame the people who we put on the front lines with our votes and money to fight this when they just cave without so much as a wimper!

These guys aren’t even trying…and next year they’ll be coming at us again to vote for them not because we can trust them to do anything to defend themselves…or us…they’ll be demanding we donate to and vote for them because somehow they’re better than the Democrats….who cares if they never do anything to show they are better than the Democrats…they’ll just rely on everyone being pissed at the Democrats and expect the world on a plate because they aren’t the crap weasels that people are most mad at!

PS- Just heard McCain with Chris Wallace complaining that the Democrats didn’t invite the Republicans to help craft the Healthcare legislation, and, to allow them to make it better. Bingo- He didn’t want to kill the bill, he wanted to make it better. To boot, he talked about how often he has worked with all administrations to work in a bipartisan “fashion.”

I personally believe that there is more to what McConnell has been doing. I see it as more than just sheer incompetence. I am not aware of anyone attacking McConnell other than us Republicans on the outside. I don’t remember Obama attacking him, or the MSM in any meaningful way, or even the Liberals in Congress. They attack the Republicans in general as being the party of no, and, as obstructionists. They don’t go after McConnell personally. Am I wrong here? I am not a conspiracy theory nutjob, but, I think McConnell has worked out some kind of deal with the devil.

I would love to see him replaced by DeMint.

but what’s the point…Bush isn’t there now…and McCain is making a pretty good fight of it despite McConnell and his fifth column behavior!