November Is A Long Way Off

It is the common wisdom that Republicans will score a significant victory in the coming Congressional elections and it has them salivating over the prospect of taking over control of the House and perhaps even the Senate.

---

Unfortunately, this may well turn out to be a case of counting your chickens before they hatch. There's a lot that can happen in the three and a half months before November 2nd, and when you hold the White House with its vast and often unchecked powers, the President can make them happen the way he wants them to happen. That is, providing the Republicans in the House and Senate stand by idly and allow them to happen. The problem that haunts Republican members of the House and Senate is the artificial barrier they erect between all-out opposition to the President and his fellow Democrats and the false collegiality they imagine exists among members of Congress regardless of their party. For a long time now Democrats have recognized that politics is war, and in one of the few times they agree with the late General Douglas MacArthur they accept the fact that in war there is no substitute for victory, a point of view that seems sadly lacking among most Republicans on Capitol Hill. Given that unfortunate fact, as the weeks roll by between now and November, the ghost of imagined collegiality haunts the GOP membership which persists in following the path of moderate opposition to immoderate opponents that believe with all their hearts that anything goes in politics - no holds barred. It's about time that Republicans learn that having the leadership step out of the trenches to voice opposition to whatever horror the President and Democrat members of Congress are planning to inflict on the American people is not enough. They should be charging across the battlefield, bayonets pointed at the enemy and prepared to use them without mercy. They don't because they don't see their Democrat colleagues as their sworn enemy or harmful to America, but merely as fellow members of the Congress with a different viewpoint that must be respected no matter how wrong-headed and dangerous to the nation it might be. If America had fought our wars that way, we'd have lost them all. There is only one tactic that can insure that Barack Obama and his fellow quasi-Marxists don't get the opportunity to turn this nation into another one of those Marxist paradises which turn out to be hell, and that is all-out warfare between now and November 2nd. If the GOP hopes to take over the House and maybe even the Senate they need do turn the floors of both Houses of Congress into "fight-like-mad" battlefields where every inch is contested. Instead of fearing to be labeled as the Party of No, they should bask in the glory of saying the loudest Noes to the ghost of Karl Marx who possesses their Democrat opponents. To hell with collegiality. War is war, and in war, victory is all that counts. That shouldn't be too hard to understand. Even by Republicans in Congress. They should heed the advice of the late Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Duroucher. "Nice guys finish last." Semper Fi