What many Republicans are wondering now is whether this is 1952 in reverse, a momentary setback for the GOP before it comes roaring back to take lasting congressional majorities. Or is this a replay of 1954, the beginning of a near-permanent Democratic majority?
Writing on the Wall Street Journal's "Opinion Journal" web site, columnist Brendan Miniter goes on to reveal the Democrats, despite their gains in Congress, have no legislative mandate because Nancy Pelosi (and, ominously, "others") did not have a "Contract with America," and "in recent years Democrats voted in near lockstep against nearly every piece of Republican legislation that came up for a vote." Which comes, I confess, as news to me.
But then it's been a big week for news, with Democrats who only a few days ago were Saddam-loving allies of the terrorists, fiends who would not rest until the Southwest was swallowed whole by Mexico, everybody in Washington spoke Spanish, and every marriage ruined, now revealed as "moderates" or even, in the happiest of cases, "conservatives," and Republicans, who only a few days ago were being loudly recommended to the voters, are revealed as having "strayed from conservative values."
Well. If "conservative values" includes winning elections, I guess they did. Too bad they couldn't have strayed two years sooner.
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