From: Gary Britt 

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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