Are Republicans Screwed?

The Slate article gives pleanty of reasons why it beleives that the current Rupblican majority is going to feeling big losses this November. This is also acknowledged by the congressional leadership that has urged Bush to investigate the "gouging" of gas prices. I think the most intersting part of the whole discussion is the the Republican shift to classic voter "bribery" with pork barrel projects. I think the paragraph below gives just as much in site into the Republican outlook for November.

Why Republicans are screwed. By John Dickerson: "Congress has expanded federal spending by 45 percent since 2001 with expansive agriculture, education, energy, and highway bills. It has resisted Bush's spending cuts in this election year and plan to lard as much as $20 billion onto Bush's $92 billion request for Iraq funding. Included in that grab is funding for the 'railroad to nowhere,' the requisite transportation pork that, like the 'bridge to nowhere,' seems the perfect metaphor for the directionless GOP."

posted by Dan Flies @ 4/26/2006 02:36:00 PM