In 2000, the Republicans had it all......
- Control of the White House
- Control of both Houses of Congress
- A slim majority on the Supreme Court, with the prospect of more conservative justices to come
And now, just 8 years later, the Republican party is in ruins. Both Houses of Congress are firmly under Democratic control. The white House will be in Democratic hands for the next 8 years. And Barack Obama will be filling vacant seats on the Supreme Court with Justices who are in tune with his political viewpoint.
What happened?
Two words......George Bush. In just 8 years this intellectual lightwight with the frat boy mentality completely reversed the balance of power in the U.S. His disastrous Iraq war was mostly to blame. But Bush also turned people against him...and the Republicans...by his ham-handed handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, by trying to appoint his cleaning lady to the Supreme Court, and by generally being an out-of-touch, incompetent putz.
Way to go, George......