From: "Rich Gauszka" 

You said "Their wrong doing started with the coup against Newt
Gingrich". It's easy to assume you are/were a supporter from that
quote. I never assumed you wanted Gingrich to run for President.



"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:464c9229{at}w3.nls.net...
> Stop reading your personal prejudices into what I write or you think I
> think.  I never said I wanted Newt to run for President.  I said the
> congress began its journey down the wrong track at the point in time when
> they executed a coup against Newt.  Yes Newt may have personal failings.
> Everyone does.  Newt's personal failings didn't involve improper behavior
> on the job however.
>
> I said it will be or could be Bush who delivers the final blow, not that
> the republican congressional leadership didn't deserve a lot of blame for
> the party's current situation.
>
> Try to read what I write and not what you think I would write.
>
> Gary
>
> John Cuccia wrote:
>> As much as you'd like to lay all the blame on Bush, you can't.  The
>> entire leadership of the GOP deserves blame for the near-destruction
>> of their party.
>>
>> "It's the hypocrisy, stupid."
>>
>> And as much as you guys are hoping for rescue by deus ex machina in
>> the body of Newt, remember this: he's as hypocritical as any of the
>> current crop of GOP leadership.  His only support in a national
>> election will come from the ~30% of the electorate that constitutes
>> the GOP base.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:43:54 -0400, Gary Britt
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I agree the Republican party leadership in congress craped out and
>>> should all be fired.  I agree with several of your points about what
>>> they did wrong.  Their wrong doing started with the coup against Newt
>>> Gingrich.  That was the start of all the ills you complain about.
>>> However, despite all of those wrongs, it could be (not yet certain but
>>> could be if Bush and the Congress pass comprehensive immigration reform)
>>> that Bush II will do an even better job of destroying the republican
>>> party than his father did, and his father, like I said, left the party
>>> in tatters worse off than before Reagan came into power and rebuilt the
>>> party.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> John Cuccia wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:54:39 -0400, Gary Britt
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I really don't understand how you can make the
statement below or on
>>>>> what basis or facts you deduce such a statement is correct.
>>>> It's simple.  While W is indeed an abomination, the Republican
>>>> Congress was just as bad.
>>>> They swept to power promising to clean up Beltway (read, Democratic)
>>>> corruption.  Instead they raised it to an art form.
>>>> They were elected on promises to restrain the growth of federal
>>>> spending and the federal government.  Instead they spent
like drunken
>>>> sailors and grew the government.
>>>>
>>>> They promised to run the country like a business.  Well, that's one
>>>> promise they kept.  Republicans in Congress ran the country like
>>>> Kenny-boy and friends ran Enron.

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