The New Road

Republican machine off the rails

Everything since the election has gone off the rails for the Republicans. The easy win of the Schiavo case turned out to be a live hand grenade. The Schiavo memo debacle which was supposed to be a Democrat conspiracy backfired as well. The war has been going badly. Iraq can't seem to get it's act together. The Social Security scam isn't winning anybody over. There is little support for this judicial stuff, and Justice Sunday appears to have been a flop. The only thing that's going right is the out of control oil prices. But that doesn't seem to be motivating people on support the ANWAR initiative. Which was the whole point.

Let's face it. The Republican party really spins around a couple of magnetic poles. Karl Rove is a genius who pulled off a really well choreographed rope-a-dope election that was close enough that the rampant electronic voting machine fraud could easily be played down. But now what? He is the election rigger. He has no role to play now.

And you've got the money man Tom Delay who is currently wrapped up in a world of hurt. For what amounts to being to brazenly corrupt. We know our politicians are corrupt. But usually they are smart enough to hide it. You can't go around bribing votes out of Congressman on the floor of the Congress for goodness sake. That's what smoke filled back rooms are for.

You've got Frist off doing heaven knows what damage to the party by siding with extremists who want to bump Judges off. Then there is Condi who really threw a wrench in the works by throwing Bolton out there. Rummy is all tied up in the Iraq thing, which should have been a cake walk. Now we are three hundred billion in the hole on that one and Iran isn't shaping up to be a piece of cake either.

No wonder Bush looks haggard:

Only four months into the new administration and the wheels have already popped off and the cart is in the ditch. Of course, we had already been in the ditch for a while. It's only becoming clear to Republicans now.