The CPAC meetings in DC have been showing up on television: on Fox News (which I watch as an equivalent to Comedy Central - as Craig Ferguson has said, it's a channel where they make things up), on MSNBC, on CNN, and even on C-SPAN. They have given us much to consider:

- Romney's resignation, where he actually stated that what Obama and Clinton wanted to do was "surrender to the enemy" after which Al Quaida would invade the US... and he didn't want to stand in McCain's way of preventing those occurances.

-Tom DeLay being interviewed at the CPAC saying that there was no way that people have caused or even contributed to Global Warming (and this from a guy who once made his living spraying poisons into the Texas air).

- James Dobson came out and endorsed Huckabee, showing how fractured conservatives really are.

- McCain, despite boos on his immigration policies, kept insisting that he was a conservative, too... a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution... and, as we know, the one candidate that wants to really be the fottsoldier of the George W. Bush war machine.

While covering CPAC, a lot of TV commentators are saying that the Republicans, if they gel behind McCain, have a real chance of winning. Is America really ready for this?

Under The LobsterScope

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Texas criminal defendant and former GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will be in Phila Mon., July 16, hawking his book at the Natl. Constitution Center.  6:30pm Tix are $15.  215-409-6700.  Will anyone be there to welcome him with signs and slogans?

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Wow, the Republicans have even spread their taint to reality television...it's being reported that Sara Evans, who had been championed by Tom Delay on the reality show "Dancing With The Stars" as a wholesome answer to the "ultra-liberal" Jerry Springer, has quit the show amidst a divorce scandal. It gets better (from the NY Times):

In unusually explicit court papers, Ms. Evans accused her husband of adultery with the couple's former nanny, excessive drinking, soliciting sex via an Internet site and maintaining a library of pornography that included pictures of him having sex with other women.

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Joe Lieberman's gut reaction to losing the primary was to declare a "do-over," by pretending it was halftime instead of the end of the game.  In this his instinct is firmly connected to that of a typical Neo-Confederate Republican.  They've been the "Do-Over" Party (DOP) for a long time.

1996:  Clinton beat Dole:  DO-OVER!  We'll devise some bogus charges so we can impeach you!

2000:  The Florida Supreme Court, ruling on what was exclusively a matter of state election law, held that the ballots would be counted in the manner advocated by Gore.  DO-OVER!  Bush and Scalia, working together, threw law and principle out the window so the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn the Florida Supremes.

2002:  The Texas redistricting plan for the 2000 census does not sufficiently favor Republicans.  DO-OVER!  Tom DeLay and his state-level henchmen perform an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting, yielding Rorschach blot districts putting a lot more Republicans in safe districts.  Upheld by the Supreme Court.

2001-present:  The House GOP announces a deadline for a vote, but when the time comes, they are losing.  DO-OVER!  They hold the vote open until they can twist a few arms and crack a few heads.  Meanwhile, the Senate GOP tries to pass failed legislation by sneaking it on to other bills.

August 2006.  Joe Lieberman loses the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary, fair and square, to Ned Lamont.  DO-OVER!  Joe says it's only halftime.

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bumped - Matt

There is more and more talk lately about Dems taking control of the House.  For example, Confident Democrats Lay Out Agenda,

Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power ...

... House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."

And Rep. John Murtha made headlines the other day, when he said

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