are they going to get away with it AGAIN?

aIt is not a good time to be a Republican right now – unless Tom DeLay helped gerrymander your district to your Republican rule for life, of course. The GOP’s approval rating is now 30%, and 49% of the public wants to see the Demos take back Congress. For political junkies like me, it is going to be fascinating to see how the GOP plans to pull this one off without resorting to election-fixing or martial law. Whatever they come up with, it had better be good.

As GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio said, "The good news is Democrats don't have much of a plan. The bad news is they may not need one."The shrill jabbering from the Fox News pundits is not a good sign. The best they seem to be able to come up with so far is: (1) the tried and true Fear card (“If you vote Demo, they’ll lynch the President, and al Qaeda will win!”), and (2) the Everyone’s A Sinner defense (“The Democrats are just as corrupt as we are!”)

Which is probably true, but not much of a vote generator. Besides, the only credible Demo scandal competing for air time right now is Cynthia McKinney clocking a cop with a mobile phone. The American People see worse behavior on daytime talk shows.

Still, it’s a long ways yet. We’re still in Iraq, and we may be in Iran by then, and I wouldn’t put it beyond the Bush Posse to invade Iran just so the GOP can say in October 2008, “Who would you rather hand the reins over to now, huh?”

And it could backfire in spectacular fashion. I’m hesitant to call a Democratic(yes I said democratic) victory in 2008, but so far it looks like the only thing the GOP will be able to do to stop it (short of an executive order from Junior Bush declaring himself Supreme Chancellor) is to pull another Florida/Ohio. And what are the odds of them getting away with that three times in a row?