So sums up Pete DuPont, former Republican Governor of Delaware (and one of the heirs to the DuPont fortune) in a good op ed in the Wall Street Journal. He's referring to the Republican Congress. The title is Bleak House and the sub-title is Republicans deserve to lose, but what happens if Democrats win?
OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
After going over the pending Democratic agenda (scary!) DuPont has this to say about the Republicans:
Most Americans have not yet thought much about this agenda, or the leaders who will set it. But they are tired of the Republican congressional performance. The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows 16% of Americans approve of congressional performance while 75% disapprove.
No wonder: Republicans gave line-item veto power to the Democratic president in the 1990s, but refused to give it to the current Republican president. They haven't made the Bush tax cuts permanent. They wouldn't bring individual ownership of Social Security retirement accounts to a vote. They haven't done anything on health care. And they have raised federal spending by $750 billion since 2001 and for fiscal 2006 approved 10,000 earmarks costing $29 billion. Conservative principles seem to have faded away, and ethical principles have weakened--names like DeLay, Ney, and Foley make the point.
It is possible President Bush and Karl Rove can stem the anti-Republican political tide. But more likely on Nov. 7 American voters will send the Congress a strong disapproval message by voting out the current Republican majority. In politics as in other jobs, there is a price to pay for poor performance.
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