that people are writing about the demise of the republican party, when more and more americans, both democratic and repubican, are worried about the out of control spending that the current adminstration and the DEMOCRATIC Congress have either already passed or proposing right now.

I suggest the writer of this column concentrate on those issues and not worry about what the minority in the both houses of Congress are doing.

Now, having said that, I wonder if he is writing this tripe in an effort to blur the fact that democrats are very liking to lose a shit load of seats in both houses next year.

Dems are apparently already smug and lazy...

Nope - its only one set of numbers that matter.

The unemployment rate in May, June and July of 2010.

Because Obama's popularity depends on those. And if unemployment is down to about 5% by May, Obama will be seen as succesful and his approval goes up to where Dems gain in the mid-terms.

If the Dems gain in the mid-terms, the GOP is toast until about 2020.

The GOP needs a real idea, not a recycled bumper sticker slogan. With unemployment at the level it is now and production and consumption numbers still sluggish, only the tea baggers and the other reality-deprived Rush/Hannity/Beck listeners will follow your Pied Piper song. First things first. There will come a day of reckoning soon enough, but we have to worry about jobs and growth so we can have tax revenue to get deficits under control.

Please go back and read a few of the articles about the efforts of Congress to reduce the deficit in 1937. A budding recovery was murdered in an effort to get deficit spending under control.

The reason little is being accomplished in Washington is largely the result of entrenched neo con power that still hasn't been eliminated.

The lie about uncontrolled spending is that we could have paid for everything if we had not gone to war in Iraq ( a complete disaster by any measure), and had not instituted the unwise tax cuts that Bush pushed through.

The party of greed and ignorance isn't going away, in all hopes people will continue to see that it really is the root of virtually all of our economic problems today.

You're right! What we need is a single party an no opposition and no dissenters. Then everything will be just dreamy!

The party of greed and ignorance

I like that slogan. I think I'm going to make some T-shirts. If I run for elected office sometime I will definitely run on this slogan... priceless. Every party is the party of greed and ignorance.

Wasn't that the dream shared by Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove?

What is your point? That isn't (shouldn't be) the dream shared by me or the rest of the voting public regardless of whether your pet party is in power at the time.

evenstevenII:

Now, having said that, I wonder if he is writing this tripe in an effort to blur the fact that democrats are very liking to lose a shit load of seats in both houses next year.

Once we get those democrats out of there, THEN things will change. Ushering in a new political party has always worked miracles in the past. Those cynics who believe that all members of congress are feeding from the same corporate trough don't know what they're talking about.

We need to get back to our conservative roots. Some real reform is all we need. It will be (yawn) the dawn of a(nother) new day for our nation. Really, it will. I mean it this time.

Gingrich will run in 2012 after republicans win a lot of seats next year in the mid term. Maybe not a majority, but enough to make Gingrich's run successful on a platform of Contract with America II.

If you knuckleheads were around in 1993, 1994 and 1995, that's when he and a republican Congress forced Clinton to balance the budget, and give Clinton, to Clinton's credit, his legacy.

Obama and a democratic Congress will continue to spend the country into oblivion and the U.S. will finaly say, "enough is enough".

MARK MY WORDS

If you think the unemployment rate will be cut in half in less than two years, you're nuts. Let alone 8 months.

Give me one example of ANY rational economist that is predicting that happening.

Good Luck.

I'm more inclined to expect a Contract With Corporate America. That's the American way. Gingrich is part of the inner circle. He's a different tie and a different hairdo. Nothing changes. Nothing.

Why pretend that it will?

At least companies, big or small, provide jobs for this country. Obama and democrats believe that if you hand out billions to the poor, that it will somehow spur them on to get a job?

Now that's lunacy!

Oh, they've handed out billions all right. I wouldn't exactly call those bailout recipients "poor", however. Let's not kid ourselves, nobody receives more government welfare than corporate America. It's much easier to vent our frustration at the "welfare queens" because they're getting their handout in plain sight. The lion's share of "government assistance" takes place in handsomely appointed boardrooms.