Congressional GOP wakes from coma...

From Politico:

"Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.

“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”

In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country."

I am not sure what is more astounding, the fact that Republicans are shocked (shocked I tell you) that their looting of the US treasury, illegal war of choice, and gross-massive corruption is not popular OR that Newt Gingrich thinks that after 7 years of this, a sudden show of "real reform" in a few months will make a difference.

This is what happens when you have no interest in governing, but instead, only in winning elections. Yes Congressional GOP face an electoral disaster, one long overdue in my humble opinion and one likely to have happened sooner if not for all those pesky voting glitches and flag-waving dirty tricks (like getting your opponent out of the way by putting him in jail). 

And no Mr. Gingrich, a "bold course of real reform" won't really put a dent into the massive criminal enterprise the GOP has constructed, which is now thankfully crumbling all around them. I say we first put these folks on trial for fraud, bribery, abuse of power, and so forth and then if they are acquitted (by some miracle) you are more than welcome to suggest "bold reforms." Sound about right?