The Party of Wide Stance

I figured that since it got 24-hour coverage on MSNBC yesterday, I didn't have to mention Larry Craig's self-flagellation at the hands of Matt Lauer yesterday. But I will note one important point. At a time when the biggest domestic issue is Bush vetoing health care coverage for sick kids, and when the biggest foreign policy issues are all catastrophes that cut against the Republics in sundry ways, the guy in the GOP getting the most airtime is... Larry Craig. Sheesh. No wonder so many Republics are hitting the road as fast as they can.

There's a fair amount of Chicken Little-ism going around on the left, but the truth is that the Republican brand is just irreparably broken in the short term. That doesn't mean Democrats can't blow this thing, particularly if they continue to fail to lead on Iraq (on many other issues, it should be noted, they're doing just fine, and I recoil from the 9 year-old mentality that government must move at the speed of light to enact everything that individual constituents demand. World just doesn't work that way). But it does mean that it'll be exceedingly difficult for them to blow this thing, in many ways in spite of themselves.

UPDATE: The Baby Party:

"I don't like being in the minority," said Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), who was first elected in the 1994 GOP landslide and will retire after this term. "It's not that much fun, and the prospects for the future don't look that good."

Waah waah waah. Whatever happened to serving the people?

UPDATE: By the way, Wide Stance said he "never used the Internet," despite discussing Google searches he made in various op-eds, etc., etc., lies, lies, bizarre weird lies for no reason, etc.