Paging Ruth Lessness

When a Hostile Takeover is in Order

From The Daily Caller this morning: GOP House majority must be wary of ‘cranky electorate,’ consultant says.     “ As they begin to govern, Republicans will need to keep in mind that their favorability is under 50 percent,” wrote Sara Taylor Fagen, a former White House political director for President George W. Bush. “The electorate is extremely cranky and will likely remain this way for some time.” To maintain control of the House, Fagen wrote, a Republican majority must realize that voters “will be slow to trust and quick to discard people they perceive as typical politicians. They're not off to a very good start: “ Rep. Darrell Issa seems like a man of contradictions. If Republicans take the House of Representatives he’ll be the Republican point man on the House Committee that investigates the government (aka the Obama administration). But Issa has struck a conciliatory tone in recent days. He told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday that Americans expect Congress to “create compromise and advance their agenda. They want us to come together after we agree to disagree." [The Note] Boehner offers plum committees to GOP challengers  similarly signals same-old -same-old, and translates into "Play for Pork."  I don't trust Boner to begin with; reminds me of the smarmy Trent Lott. The force driving this revolution is the realization that we are engaged in an ideological war to determine whether this nation lives or dies. I don't get a sense that any but a few congressional Republicans recognize that.  Unless they go in with bayonets; demand unconditional surrender; giving no quarter, then all is lost.  You know I'm right.