Republican Record Miserable and Pathetic

Hastert and Frist make me want to gag every time their visages pollute my TV screen. [Only marginally better than the airhead Pelosi and the high-soprano Reid, who provoke projectile metaphorical oral ejaculations].

Of course, the Dems are pushing a takeover of the Government by judicial fiat, promoting a mullocracy of jurists examining "penumbras and emanations" in the U.S. Constitution that will justify anything and everything, including a Massachusetts law forgetting to define marriage as between a man and woman! The ACLU drove a truck through that legislative lapse, which was the result of solons of a different century who would have found it impossible to imagine a perversion so sick as same-sex "marriages." But the WSJ finds the silver linings, albeit the chief one at the expense of a politically tone-deaf POTUS who wanted to appoint the legally barely-literate Harriet Miers:.

The one great [accomplishment] is the confirmation of two new Supreme Court Justices. GOP Senators in particular helped to steer President Bush away from his underwhelming initial choice of White House counsel Harriet Miers toward the distinguished Samuel Alito. With the High Court playing an ever more decisive role in our political life, this may be Mr. Bush's most significant legacy beyond the war on terror.

Republicans also deserve credit for financing the war, which is more than many Democrats say they'll do if they run Capitol Hill. The extension for two more years, through 2010, of the 15% rate on dividends and capital gains will also help sustain the economic growth that is throwing off record revenues to pay for the war even as the budget deficit declines. The recent compromise on terrorist interrogations may also turn out to be historic, putting Congress's imprimatur on the Presidential powers needed to fight an enemy that violates the normal rules of war. Toss in bankruptcy and class-action reform, and some free-trade agreements. That's about it for the good news.

Far longer is the list of lapses on the part of the strange duo of Frist and Hastert, who rarely lost an opportunity to lose an opportunity:

On the liability side, the list of flops is extensive, starting with making the tax cuts permanent, repealing the estate tax and immigration reform. Senate Democrats did their part to kill the first two, but House Republicans get credit for fanning public worry about immigration and then pretending that a 700-mile fence will solve the problem.

Social Security reform was never going to be easy, and Mr. Bush's war-driven decline in job approval meant he couldn't move any Democrats. But that still doesn't excuse such prominent Republicans as Tom Davis (Virginia) and Roy Blunt (Missouri) for resisting their President's reform effort behind the scenes. So frightened were they that they never even brought the subject up for a vote.

Perhaps the most puzzling abdication was the GOP failure to do anything at all on health care. The window for saving private health care from government encroachment is closing, and both business and workers are feeling the pinch from rising costs. Yet Republicans failed to make health-care savings accounts more attractive, failed to let business associations offer their own health plans, and failed even to bring to a vote Arizona Congressman John Shadegg's bill to avoid costly state mandates by letting health insurance be marketed across state boundaries. The biggest winner here is Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign.

The WSJ goes on to list the weak and wishy-washy excuses of the Republicans, although some have refused even to admit they did an awful job of protecting their party's patrimony. And the delusional Frist and Allen still think they have presidential chances?

While the Dems are hardly putting up an opposition, the pig-headed stubbornness and concomitent incompetence of the Republicans should send them back to the minority status they have so richly earned.