Something to think about

The House GOP is a mess:

I had assumed that after the November elections the GOP on the Hill would hear what everyone was saying to them. But it turns out they got the slogans down, but internalized nothing of the need to engage in a completely different approach to the debates ahead. They are almost completely powerless in the House, and thus are only a rhetorical force. They have nothing but arguments to make to the public, but they are getting rolled in debate after debate because there is no party position that hasn’t been undercut by backbenchers, and there is not anything approaching a communications strategy.

And like I said yesterday, they're not going to get points in '08 from Democrats and Independents for having sided with the new majority on Iraq. So is it just a plain, ordinary, run-of-the-mill deathwish?