Republicans playing high-stakes poker with a pair of threes

[Caro]

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From The Hill's Pundits Blog

60 Democratic Senators?

Brent Budowsky

The most underestimated statistic in American politics is that 21 Republican senators are running for reelection in 2008, creating the possibility of seismic gains for Democrats. Is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a brilliant tactician leading his caucus to a catastrophic disaster in 2008?

Consider the perspective of Dick Morris. In his analysis, the Iraq war votes are a game of chicken in which Republicans aggressively go to the mat for the president’s policy, and prevail because of their iron will.

Setting aside whether the lives of our troops should be subject to a game of chicken by partisans in Washington, in a war that is going poorly, with tidal opposition from the American people, this strategy at best achieves irrelevant short-term tactical gains in return for strategic disaster for the GOP…

Mr. Morris and Sen. McConnell are playing high-stakes poker with a pair of threes visible to all, and they raise the ante?...

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com