Should Republicans Impeach Bush Themselves?

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The Republican midterm election strategy -- to run from Bush by localizing issues and candidates -- has one essential flaw: Republicans themselves have spent the last five years nationalizing Congress.

Its success depends on voters forgetting, in the face of Democratic reminders, the discipline of which Republicans themselves have long boasted ...

It's all about individualism now. Democratic attempts to lump them together and make the Republican Party itself the issue is, they sniff, simply unfair ...

They may find it hard to convince people that collective action doesn't engender collective responsibility. If things were going well they'd damn sure be claiming collective credit ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20060505/cm_rcp/should_republicans_impeach_bus

Spotty but hits some central points ...