I’ve been howling about this kind of behavior on the part of Republicans for so long I’ve callouses on my fingertips and a couple of dents in the wall from tossed coffee mugs.

The Democrats are nothing but a bunch of fourth grade playground bullies. They’re the biggest kiddies on the little playground and they’ve been blessed by a teacher who made Playground Rule #1, You may not hit back. For DC Dems, trumpets sounded, the clouds parted and heaven came to rest on earth when GWB was elected with a promise of a NewTone™ for politics in DC. They knew they had license to haul out the big guns with absolutely no fear of reprisal.

My question is, just who will show up to fight? There is one life lesson we should have learned by the time we got to middle school that Congressional Republicans either have forgotten or managed to never learn. Punch the bully, he’ll back down. The folks we’ve managed to send to the Congress seem to be folks who’ve never met a fight they couldn’t run from. We need to find a fighter or two among our currently elected folks and find a way to reward them from out here in the peanut gallery, because sure as heck can’t count on the rest of the elected class to reward them. As a corollary, I’d also like to find a way to punish those, especially those in leadership, who stand by with pasty smiles while we get pummeled.

Yes, being called mean seems to be enough to stymie many GOP Senators. Worse than that is being called raaaaacist!. That will stop most of them dead in their tracks and do an about face.

How’s that working out for them now?

Granholm’s presidential campaign slogan: I’ll do for America what I’ve done for Michigan!

Or at least I suspect some whine-o-gram like that is how she explains her incompetence.

The word “mean” is like kryptonite to Republicans. Screw that. Sometimes it takes character, courage and convictions to act like an adult, especially if you’re outnumbered 20 to 1. Of course, lesser people are going to think that you’re “mean” or “unfair”.

We need to elect representatives who are more interested in advancing the cause than advancing their own careers. Or being thrown a bone, like a better parking space.

Who are our pit bulls? I can’t name one.

Confront these people. They’ve spent too long thinking that they can make statements like this without personal consequences. Embarrassing three or four of them would be useful; entertaining; and good for our morale

…instead of:

(a) a White House committed to New Tone (translation: keep turning a fresh cheek to your opponent, no matter how many times they smacked the last one you presented), or:

(b) GOP Senators (e.g., Warner, Lugar, Hagel, Collins) who focus on being nice-and-above-board on the Sunday talk shows, while Schumer, Levin, et.al beat them senseless.

Moe is right; my morale as a GOP foot soldier and conservative is shot.

The Dems say these things because they know the leading GOP spokesmen will suffer in silence, and the MSM won’t make a fuss. If I were Granholm or Dingell, I’d follow the example of Schumer and Emmanuel: Keep kicking the GOP until someone makes me stop.

Every little blow you land on the GOP’s image makes its brand that less palatable to voters. Over time, LOTS of time, that damage can add up. Like, for example, in the loss of fourteen Senate seats in just two national elections!

Case in point: alll those MSMers who wanted to know if Sarah Palin would take a DNA test to prove that she was indeed Trig’s mother.

Remember Steve Schmidt telling us how so many of those reporters privately confided to him that they were ashamed to be asking those questions—-but their editors were making them do it?

OK, then..remember when McCain promised to tell the American people the names of wanna-be earmarkers and pork-barrelers if he won the Presidency?

Well, why not name the names of those professional journalists who wanted to pry into the most private aspects of Sarah Palin’s life?

Why not embarass them? Why not put THEM on the defensive?

The MSM has lower public approval ratings than the Nancy Pelosi Congress! It is shedding market share, employees and equity value daily. It is wounded.

And, it has never, ever been so hostile to the GOP as it was in this last election.

We owe it nothing.

Now, here’s a case where we have a wounded, hostile beast in our crosshairs. With a powerful weapon, loaded with potent ammunition in our collective hands, and a GOP leaders’ fingers (Mc Cain campagn) on the trigger.

And…they…just…won’t…pull…the…trigger.

I know, yes I know that many political winds did not favor the GOP in this last election cycle.

But you must exploit to the fullest the potent weapons you DO have!

And then there’s Jennifer Granholm, the most overrated governor in the whole of the Union, a governor whose “leadership” has only served to run the state of Michigan down without any respite whatsoever for the poor citizenry of the Wolverine State who deserve far better and who instead, get a governor who sinks to their expectations without fail.

…when, if memory serves, they re-elected Granholm.

One of the drawbacks about a republic—it makes its citizens pay for bad choices they make in the voting booth.

Take your medicine, Michigan.

However, the reason that it’s important to strongly counter the charges of being unpatriotic is that they are not really aimed at the Senators and Congressmen opposing the bailout. They are directed at the majority of the American people who, in poll after poll, say they don’t want this.

They can’t call those people unpatriotic, of couse, so the strategy is to question the patriotism of those who represent their views.It’s an age old strategy used by both sides.

The Senators do not have an obligation to defend themselves against such junk charges. They do have an obligation to debunk the notion that opposition to using taxpayer dollars to bail out a horribly inefficient industry is unpatriotic in any way shape or form in defense of the tens of millions of Americans who are against the bailout.