The RNC and the Retarded Elephant

So apparently Michael Steele smells blood in the midterm races this year, and quite honestly who can blame him? If Dick Gephardt could say in 2004 during his presidential campaign that George Bush was a "miserable failure" (which he was/is) then you could quite easily say the same thing about the Obama Administration and the democratic congress in 2009 (and thus far in 2010).

Steele sees the recent anouncements for democratic retirements this year in the House and Senate as the democrats "running for the hills." Is he right? Well, maybe.
The democrats have long been spineless weasels and proven themselves utterly helpless in a real fight (i.e. The Iraq War, The Afghan War, climate change, gay rights, healthcare etc etc.). And it is pricisely this reason that makes me think that perhaps he is right. Chris Dodd is one (D) who is not running for re-election and has announced his retirement. Now Dodd ran into a little bit of trouble last year in regards to AIG, and some have speculated that Dodd is responsible for there being restrictions on bonuses paid to AIG. According to my own research on factcheck.org, this isn't really true. He agreed, in protest, to the watered down restrictions that actually passed in the House/Senate compromise. But his justification for it was that he wanted the to be SOME restriction verses NO restriction at all.
Having said that, to me this goes back to the spineless weasel factor I just spoke of. When it comes down to a fight democrats want none of it. So, either way you slice it this hasn't been a good year for Sen. Chris Dodd.

Byron Dorgan is another Senator who will be leaving this year, and to be frank I don't know anything about this guy. The other, is Senator Even Bayh and frankly who needs him? He has been a huge problem for democrats during the healthcare debate (although nothing like Liebermann, who, though he is not technically a democrat is still a member of the democratic caucus).
By sheer numbers it is true that democrats have the largest majority in the House and Senate in modern history. But that includes a lot of democrats who appear to so in name only.

But let's get back to the RNC. By all accounts republicans should have a good year this year, and at the same time I have to ask, why? True the democrats haven't gotten much of anything done in the last year, but why does that mean we should vote for republicans? Have we already forgotten the miserable failure they were? Sure they could get things done, but they were all horrible things. And the things they tried to get done but didn't had the potential to be even worse. So I have to ask, even if you are angry with the democrats (as I am) why would you want to put the retarded elephant back in charge? Were things really any better? NO! Perhaps it's time we started looking at a third party..SERIOUSLY. And by third party to DO NOT mean the "tea party." Just a thought.

Adversarial Light,
Mortecai