The GOP Admission: We Got Problems

» WSJ: The Republican Panic

I had to stop and make sure I read this part of the column properly ...

One of Tom DeLay's great blunders, among many, was failing to do anything about health care when Republicans controlled Washington in 2005.

Ya know, I'm as well-versed in Tom DeLay's transgressions as any other Texas Democrat. And I think I can state on that authority that Tom DeLay's lack of a health care bill in 2005 doesn't even crack the top 100 of his blunders.

Oddly enough, Karl Rove pretty much echoes this column (birds of a feather and whatnot). In Rove's take, we're told that basically Republicans and Democrats alike are hurting in the eyes of the voters. It's enough to encourage me to contribute to a poll that pits McCain against Joe Biden just to properly demonstrate the fallcy of this argument. Let's see ... which one has to defend the most mismanaged war in American history? ... or the most incompetent administration since, oh, I dunno, the Harding administration?* ... or a President less popular than gay marriage among illegal immigrants who refuse to both speak English-only and wear a US flag lapel pin while waiting in line at the DMV for their New York drivers license?

I think I'd take my chances with Nancy Pelosi compared to that.

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* - Of course, I recognize the harshness of my tone here and realize an apology is in order. So, to the Harding descendants, I apologize.