GOP Senator: "We're Part Of The Problem"

A day after losing Ted Stevens' seat, along with their best hope for getting Joe Lieberman to cross over, Senate GOP leaders preached party unity as the key to surviving the Obama years.

If that doesn't work, there's always psychotherapy.

Down to 42 seats with two still at risk, Senate Republicans are in a deep funk. Some are in denial. Some want a return to conservative principles. Some want to cut deals. Some want more filibusters.

Others want to jump out a window -- but they're afraid they'd screw that up, too.

"We probably wouldn't die," a Republican Senate aide joked Wednesday. "We'd just lie there, hurt and suffering, which is not too much different from where we are now."

Two years ago, the Republicans held a 55-45 majority. They're down 13 seats since then, with a too-close-to-call race in Minnesota and a runoff in Georgia still to come.

"The feeling I get is that we're not ready yet to discuss with ourselves what happened," said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, one of the few Republicans to win an easy reelection this year. "I think people are kind of still a bit stunned and are not prepared to have thought it through sufficiently."

"We think the whole problem is George Bush and not us, and we're part of the problem," added Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[1differentdrummer]

Wow, the awakening. Now the folks who voted for them and their great Evangelical guy to have a beer with need to wake up. There is room in the D tent for religious people and conservatives, welcome aboard. The hate and war mongers have been very bad for us and our country.

[SwingVoter]

No S h i t Sherlock...

[rabiddog6708]

It"s a longer-than-usual list this year, and it includes Stevens, Warner, Pete V. Domenici, Elizabeth Dole, Wayne Allard, Gordon Smith, John Sununu, Larry Craig and Chuck Hagel.
"This causes a lot of pain," said Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson. "There are a lot of good people there. We"re going to miss them all."

But we are not going to miss them. Here's hoping that more Repubs follow them out the door in 2010. So long, losers.

[plages]

WRONG, you were the problem!

[vjthedj]

I was about the post the same thing. The GOP were part of the problem. The marched lock step, and attacked anyone who didn't . The only way to change the direction of the country was to replace all of them.

[silentreader]

didn't even read the article, just the title. And to that, I say..."DUH!" You jack@sses ARE the problem.

[springsm]

and interestingly enough, "they are stunned"....my gosh.. what a bunch of arrogant pissants. Part of the problem, heh....I agree with silentreader...they ARE the problem.

[pcplz]

Dear Republicans, didn't you look around you at the convention? Did you see a representation of the country that you say you know so much about? Do you remember when Bush addressed a dinner party as the rich and the richer??

Step out in third person.....look around. What do you see? Have you been watching out for the least of us or for only the highest of us? The Evangelicals that you so readily support are so small minded that they want to exclude anyone who is not them. Is that the country that you want to be in?

Open that 'blind eye' and look at what is in front of you. You failed, not only the country, but yourselves. I believe that everyone of you went into politics with the right attitude. Wanting to serve and help. But, then the lies and power got to you.

Take another look and then, you tell me what went wrong. It is right in front of you. Play back the video of the RNC Convention and tell me you are really proud of it. Look at the faces and the eyes of the constituants. There in tells the story.

Step out and think. Don't talk to any of the others in your party.....go back to why you began this trip and think. Then act.

[viewfromuphere]

excellent post

[leeman79]

Part of the problem? You are the problem.

[haval2]

what's the head scratch about...you stand for everything that is odious in america and then are snooty about it. check your bible thumpers on the right...the ones who think they are always right...good place to start in your house cleaning and evaluations. and one of you...just one of you who can read, pick up a copy of the Constitution, read it and don't rely on rev. hagee etal. to tell you what it means.

[Shieldmaiden]

GOP here's some advice: keep G.od out of government, admit that you helped Bush destroy our nation, ignore the Limbaughs and Hannitys of the world, and do something to actually fix the nation instead of using bigoted language to attack teh gays, teh blacks, teh latinos, and teh Mooslims. Then maybe, just maybe we will invite you back.

[viewfromuphere]

I think the GOP would go a long way in their rehab if they'd pull the Limbaughs, hannitys, and Coulters aside and tell them.."Your not helping"

[wm1066]

These people didn't get the 2006 election so they really wont get what just happened.
Trying to exlpain it to them is" throwing pearls before swine." They will never get it.
Didn't they re-elect Boehner? How dumb is that!
What they didn't understand was that America was watching them and getting angrier by the minute with what they were doing.

[LWkcma]

Please, PLEASE, filibuster every chance you get. Make yourselves even more of a pariah to progress. That's the true way to relevancy.

AMEN

[KCFreedom]

One of the things that has bothered me about the GOP was its complete lack of understanding of its own complicity in failure and destruction of our society and the Constitution. They also do not understand irony at all.

If they would have started this process of "understanding" before the election this year they may have not lost as much ground. They sure didn't get it after the 2006 election spanking (GWB's own word).

As in drug addicts and alcoholics the first step to recovery is self-admission.

They need to start listening to the voters and less to Bill Kristol and his like.

Let's see if the Democrats are "for real" for change, or not. Time will tell.

[Whinger]

Republicans need to rip the foundations out and rebuild on racial equality, justice and rights for all, and paying lip service to these is not enough, anything less than all embracing policies won't work!

Being defenders of the faith, their faith, is not enough because America is a melting pot from all walks of life, ignore these facts and you will remain in the political wilderness!

[lisakaz2]

Helllooo Captain Obvious!

[RoveRoveRoveYourBoat]

...relax...you're still as popular as grits
with the ignorant racists and thoughtless fundi-mentalists.
You ushered and encouraged those oafs,
now swindle and serve them! Hahahahahahaha