WE’LL BE BACK: “Not yet three months into their first congressional majority since 1994, the Democrats are acting like the Republicans they condemned for fiscal freewheeling.”
During the first few weeks of their return to power, I was actually impressed with the Democrats. And as a Republican, I was afraid. The Democrats were pursing a modest, inoffensive “100 hours” agenda and more or less behaving themselves. Americans voters would not, I think, depose a modest, well-behaved party, and they might even reward it.
But only months later, I’m much less impressed and not at all afraid. Per Gallup, congressional job approval is now down to 28%, even lower than the president’s. Assuming the party leadership takes care to recruit strong candidates and to target its resources properly, the GOP should do just fine in the 2008 elections. At a minimum, Republicans should reclaim the ten or so seats that “belong” to them.
There’s still time, of course, for Democrats to turn things around. (There’s also still time for them to make other, serious mistakes.) But my point is Republicans have reason to be optimistic.
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