So your president is at 25% approval rating. Your attorney general is a laughing stock who doesn't even bother concealing his perjury and contempt for Congress (including members of your party). Iraq continues to spiral out of control. On just about every issue, your political foes have the upper hand. And on that one advantage you could always count on -- cash -- you're getting blown out.
So what do you do?
Seeing that Republicans can't function without an enemy, and seeing that efforts to demonize scaaary Nancy Pelosi have failed disastrously, they're moving on to Plan B -- Harry Reid.
Senate Republicans are preparing to take aim at Majority Leader Harry Reid over the August recess for being “all talk but no action” and helping drag the Democrat-led Congress’ approval rating to a historic low, according to a document distributed to caucus members.
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, is meeting with members yesterday and today to disseminate a message critical of Democrats for endlessly debating the Iraq war, stalling judicial nominations and squandering time on at least 300 investigations of the Bush administration.
“We really ought to be asking why this Democrat leadership won’t allow Congress to move forward on serious policy debates,” Mr. Kyl said, when asked about the talking-points memorandum he is circulating.
The Carpetbagger Report notes:
I suppose it’s possible that I’ve heard more breathtaking hypocrisy, but nothing comes to mind. Reid isn’t allowing Congress to move forward? Republicans are on pace to be the most obstructionist minority in the history of Congress, and the GOP wants to blame Reid for blocking progress?
I suppose we should have seen this coming. Fred Hiatt went after Reid over the weekend, at the same time as David Brooks, Bob Novak, and a handful of other conservative media voices, suggesting some kind of coordinated effort to blast the Majority Leader.
And now the RNC is making it official.
The lemmings are in action, their hypocrisy be damned! But isn't it always this way? What's hilarious is the "ammo" Republicans are wielding in this laughable effort, as Joe at AmericaBlog notes:
The Chair of Republican National Committee, Robert M. "Mike" Duncan, just launched a full-scale attack on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The funny thing is that the first line of the e-mail could be a fundraiser for Democrats:
On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called President Bush "a liar" and a "part of the culture of corruption."
Both true.
Duncan's e-mail devolves into a rant from there. But you have to love the fact that the RNC is attacking Reid for doing something most Republican will never, ever do: Tell the truth.
Despite gains in recent years, the GOP still has a vastly superior media machine to get their message out. So I'm ecstatic that they've decided to give us a helping hand by reminding people that 1) Democrats oppose Bush, his lies, and his corruption, and 2) Democrats want to get out of Iraq.
The dumbasses think this is going to help them, so who are we to dissuade them from that notion?