We must be the nicest party in the world. I can’t put my frustration into words. I’ll be taking that suggested alcohol break now. Be back in 2 years.

Translation of Graham:

We’ll cut deals that will betray our voters when we want favorable press and quietly get rolled over when we can’t make a deal.

So why should anybody bother to vote for such a Republican, since they’re not going to stand up for conservative principles.

If you’re going to get screwed either way, might as pick a Democrat to do the screwing because that way you’ll get paid more in return – the Democrat will be able to get more pork thrown your way.

/snark

I can’t get myself worked into a lather whether it’s 57-43 or whatever.

There are a half-dozen who will break their necks to be the first one to “reach across the aisle”.

I’ll predict right now that we will not see a single unbroken filibuster.

It’s much appreciated.

Yes, that is why he needs McCain and Graham.

I’m certain Obama intends to take the bad money out of politics. That is why he needs McCain and Graham.

I’m certain Obama wants to attach as many Republican faces as possible to the next amnesty push. That is the real reason he needs McCain and Graham, and they are too witless to understand it. Yet they will act as the dutiful Judas Goats, turn off millions of American voters, and stand by idly as the Democrats fork over money and implement new social programs to ensure newly minted citizens can be counted on to remain left-wing.

I read somewhere else that the great tragedy about this election was that both McCain and Obama couldn’t loose. How about the fact both got nominated in the first place?

It took McCain just a matter of hours to decide to carry Obama’s water. He sat on his hands for weeks as the dirtbags he hired to run his so-called campaign trashed Sarah Palin. Consider that contrast, and it is easy to agree on one point: there is no need to take McCain serious on any level about any subject ever again. There is something deeply wrong with this man, and the love he feels for those who abuse him and the abuse he heaps on those who helped him would require a shrink rather than a political analyst to disentangle. I don’t know which I pity the most, our Republic or our Republican Party, and frankly don’t know if either can be salvaged at this juncture.

should neither be forgotten nor forgiven. Given that the Obama’s party controls both the Presidency and the Congress, it does not need Republican cooperation to do anything. Republicans should hold him and his administration to his unrealistic campaign promises and politically persecute him with his own words and his actions while relentlessly pointing out what the Republican alternative policy would have been. We should be playing the part of the loyal, but effectively powerless opposition to the hilt. Oh yeah, that would require a unified vision based on principles, party discipline, cohesion amongs the members and clear, reasoned, and decisive leadership. If the Republican party already had this, we wouldn’t be planning on how to be the loyal opposition, we would be governing with a clear mandate and enough of the power in government to see our vision through. Yeah I forgot, we’re talking about today’s Republican party.