As a Democrat, I would like the "Tea Party" to be its own political party and take votes away from the Republicans! Not only because it would weaken their numbers but it would allow the GOP to be more moderate. I feel like they are trying to please these uber-conservatives but their ideology can tend toward extreme.  View

The big issue that parties will split over in the coming years is simply big government vs. small government. The GOP will swing left (presentation aside, the substance of McCain's and Obama's stances on most issues were embarrassingly similar) and you'll have Libertarians vs. the GOP and Dems. We're seeing politicians switching between the GOP and Dems already, and Dems standing for things you'd expect GOPers to stand for. The Libertarians will come in as a third party but I expect the system will balance itself out to two parties again. It'll take a few more years, but I absolutely expect it in the next couple decades.  View

BTW: The leaders of the GOP better be damn scared. If they don't get their acts together and get back to basic principles, they are going to get replaced by people who will and who will win elections.  View

Cheney? Mr. Weapons of Mass Destruction, credible? Folks, I don't care if you're a Dem or a GOP on this one. It's one thing for this relic of war profiteers wants to "sell sh_t on a stick and call it ice cream'. It's quite another when some party hard-liners and/or Obama haters want to gobble it up and say, "YUM!". Cheney should be tried for treason, not given the red carpet from ABC, and his party faithful.  View

to me this echoes the communication strategy he used during the sotu and gop retreat, the speech stresses civil political discourse. the people he is addressing have claimed he is muslim, that he is kenyan, that he is socialist. now there is video talking to then proving that he is none of those things.  View

McDonnell is an excellent speaker, but his credentials as a pragmatist remain to be seen. He was a graduate of a Christian school and his thesis would not have been acceptable in a mainstream university because of the value judgements it contained. He is governing a state that has a $5 billion deficit. McDonnel's speech was high on abstraction and low on concrete details. Republicans have talked about limited government before but they have always expanded the federal government and deficit when elected. McDonnel has only been in office a couple of months.time will tell whether he ahs the right stuff. He appears to be a better option for the GOP than Sarah Palin.  View

It was transparent hokum, from the asian and black persons as decorations, to the setting of the state house, trying to give the impression of seriousness, yet with friends, not lawmakers in attendance cheering him on. He did not "rebut" the President's State of the Union speech. In fact, he ignored it to drag out the same old same old GOP talking points. In a word, boring.  View

So I still have on idea what his rebuttal contained. If, as some commenters have suggested, it was just GOP talking points, then I think dissatisfaction and boredom are appropriate. If, however, they actually countered some of Obama's controversial statements, then we'd have us a watchable debate.  View

I think this is the right frame in which the media must look at the joke of the Mass. election. If a bill is passed, it will be much thinner and filled with more GOP-appeasing obstacles, looking almost nothing like its original proposal.  View

the FOX News quote is laughable this isn't going to hurt the party if she thinks democrats are in disarray i wonder what would she call the state of the GOP? I agree with Scarborough, Reid should step aside not because of this, but because he has expended his political capital on health care.  View