Nixon panicked and had his minions break into the Watergate Hotel.
Reagan panicked and spent hundreds of billions against a near bankrupt Soviet Union.
Reagan panicked again after a few Cuban advisers were found in Grenada.
Reagan panicked and thought we were all going to die of the bug and refused to recognize the AIDS crisis
Bush Sr. panicked when he thought Noriega had the goods on him and his Iran contra crew. He invaded to capture a low-level thug
W panicked after 9/11 and let the locals negotiate with al-Qaeda (letting OSB escape into Pakistan)
W panicked and believed the neo-cons about Saddam's WMD
W panicked and disbanded the Iraqi military
W panicked and looked the other way as the United States tortured low-level punks in Iraq
W panicked and created the 230,000 strong Department of Homeland Security behemoth
W panicked and started listening to your phone calls and reading your emails
W panicked and refused to close Gitmo
W panicked and bailed out the banks
W panicked and created TARP
The Republicans are panicked about headless bodies in the Arizona desert
The Republicans are panicked that Texas school children might learn about the New Deal in elementary school textbooks
Glenn Beck is so panicked that he is incapable of telling the truth about even the most trivial things
Sara Palin is so panicked she might miss a talking point that she writes notes on her palm
Now tell me again why Republicans are so good at governing? Time and again, Republicans have shown that they panic under pressure. With the mid-terms just 8 weeks away, I think we must remind America just how incapable the Republicans are of showing leadership during difficult times.