The weakness of President Bush has permitted the moderate House Republicans to vote their constituencies, if not their conscience, and the Republican leaders are left looking weak.
A large part of this is the ability of Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer to keep control of the Democrats so that the Republicans can't "cherry-pick" a few votes from across the isle to cover for moderate Republicans they are losing. Michael Crowley provides the story.
It's a year from the mid-term elections. The weakness of the Republican Party and the failure of the Iraq War is going to leave the Republican Party in real problems. When having such problems the Republicans have invariably resorted to really nasty politics. Expect dirty tricks, nasty attacks of which the Swift Boat-type attacks will be only part, and efforts to steal elections next year.
If you want to see what kind of year 2006 is going to be, go look at This Diary by Tom Kertes at Booman Tribune. He presents the Rovian Rules for politics.
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