Republicans Commit Suicide

They really do make it too easy.

First they propose privatization, which goes over like a lead balloon. Then the Schiavo law, which went over like a uranium balloon. Tom DeLay get enmeshed in ethics problems, but they are going to fight to the knife to protect him. Frist continues to push the unpopular "nuclear option" in his deluded quest for the Presidency, while he and other theocons are all over the news attacking the independent judiciary. Last week things were looking pretty sweet for the good guys.

And then came yesterday. In one evening the Republican Congress passed cuts to poor people and little kids, opened up ANWR, and created another tax cut for rich people - all in the same bill. Finally, Bush goes on national television and not only doesn't abandon private accounts, but comes out in favor of benefit cuts.

So the right has made all that thematic links we'd like to draw about them. Anyone watching the news will associate Republicans with: corruption, religious radicalism, a contempt for the Constitution, gifts to rich people, wrecking the environment, hatred for the needy, abolishing social security, and attacking the elderly.

If they keep this up, we won't even have to run campaigns in 2006 & 2008. The Republicans will have spent 4 years running negative ads against themselves.