....Republican campaign efforts are “far ahead” of where they were the year before the party took back the House in 1994, the leader of the GOP’s midterm campaign efforts said Monday.
Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas) said that in such areas as fundraising and candidate recruitment, the House GOP’s 2010 election campaign is ahead of where the party was at the same point in the 1994 cycle. That was the year former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) led the Republican Revolution during the midterm election following former President Bill Clinton’s first two years in office........Still, taking over the House will be difficult. Republicans would have to win about 40 seats to gain a majority, depending on the results of a special election to replace Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who left his seat to become Army secretary.....
Obviously, the Republican claim for success is just gibberish. Everyone knows that the Republicans have become the party of "no-mongers," "birthers," "deathers," "teabaggers," racists, obstructionists, pro-war, anti-minority, anti-immigrant group. The Republicans haven't had a fresh idea in decades. Despite their big complaints about President Obama's health care reform, the Republicans have NO HEALTH PLAN of their own. None.
> To further show evidence of the Republican inability to move forward, I give you an example in today's Columbus Dispatch:
Senate President Bill Harris fired off a sharply worded letter to the governor yesterday saying that he wants to repeal the racetrack slot-machine language passed as part of the two-year budget in July and open any future slots plan to voters.
In a pointed response, a spokeswoman for Gov. Ted Strickland said he is not opposed to the request -- although she noted that Harris and other Senate Republicans originally had approved the slots language and haven't addressed the pending budget deficit now that slots are on hold....
I'm sure other Ohioans will see this move by Harris and the Ohio Republicans as a way to slow down any progress in the state. Instead of tackling current problems in the state, the Republicans want to waste time going back over some wording in a bill they already passed. As it stands now, the Republican dominated Ohio Senate is barely putting in a full week, and yet they want to slow down their work to a snail's pace.