REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL MINORITY MAKES THE CASE TO AMERICAN VOTES THAT IT IS IMPERATIVE TO ELECT A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT

John Boehner, best known for handing out bribery checks from Big Tobacco on the floor of the U.S. Congress, before being elected Minority Leader, emerged from his tanning salon, briefly, to issue a report, before hustling off to the golf course. He meant to say that the Democratic majority in the House suck and instead his report makes it clear why voters need to elect more Democrats to Congress, retire more Republicans from the Senate and, more important than all, elect a Democrat, any Democrat to the presidency.

House Republicans today will issue a scathing report grading the Democrats' first 100 days in control of Congress, with a reminder to the American people that none of the new majority's signature issues has become law... The 19-page document, called "Democrats: 0 for 6 in '07, Failing to Produce Results in the 110th Congress," outlines the fate of each measure on the Democratic agenda.

Perhaps if Boehner hasn't spent so much of 2007 locked up in a tanning booth he would be aware that the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate "accomplished more in three months than Republicans achieved in all of 2006, especially since they passed a budget and an emergency supplemental spending bill." On top of that Democrats, in their first 100 hours 50 hours in power passed-- often with wide bipartisan support (although not from Boehner)-- bills raising the minimum wage, increasing federal funding for stem cell research, implementing all the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, cutting the interest rate on student loans, making changes to the Big Pharma-written Medicare prescription-drug plan the Republicans had foisted on the American public, and rolling back subsidies for Big Oil. All these bills are either being blocked by Bush's bitch McConnell in the Senate or have been passed and are being reconciled with the House versions. Bush, of course, is threatening to veto all of them.

Next year voters will have an opportunity to elect senators in several states who are not dedicated to obstructionism. With the defeats of reactionaries like McConnell (R-KY), Sununu (R-NH), Coleman (R-MN), Dole (R-NC), Collins (R-ME), Cornyn (R-TX), Craig (R-ID), Domenici (R-NM), Sessions (R-AL), and the replacement of the retiring Allard (R-CO) with a progressive Democrat, the Senate will no longer be tied down in GOP parliamentary maneuvers to keep legislation from becoming law. And a Democratic president in the White House, whether Obama, Edwards or Hillary, instead of the disastrous Bush, America will once again be able to come together and move forward.

Mired in an unpopular and seemingly endless war, grotesque incompetence, unending corruption and criminal intrigue, the Bush Regime has lost a sense of legitimacy among most Americans.

And the latest Gallup Poll backs up the feeling that Americans are already sick of Republican obstructionism and long past being fed up with the Bush Regime. "Recent Gallup polling continues to show a favorable political environment for the Democratic Party. Democrats maintained a significant advantage in partisan identification throughout the first quarter of 2007. Additionally, by a sizable margin, Americans say they would rather see the Democrats than the Republicans win the 2008 presidential election... These days, a greater proportion of independents express a leaning toward the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. When party leanings are taken into account, the 5-percentage-point Democratic advantage on national partisanship from the first quarter grows to 12 points, 52% to 40%."