There's a distinct and additional level of unpopularity tied to the fact that even as the president's popularity has dropped -- which obviously he and Rove didn't plan or want -- they've basically been indifferent to the fate of the congressional GOP, even the future of the GOP as a whole. Again and again over the last year the White House has had chances to take some of the heat off congressional Republicans -- to ease back on Iraq, to can Alberto Gonzales, to let go or punish this or that crook. And they haven't done one.[...]
As with the country going back seven years now, they've shown little interest in the future fate of the GOP after they leave or even at present unless it bears directly on their ability to protect themselves.
In other words, they are now treating the Republican party much as they've treated the country for the last six years.
Arrogance and selfishness taken to the extreme. It's always seemed to me that the Bushies only ever recognized the GOP as a tool to serve their personal interests anyway. In fact, though, that's pretty much what the Republican party has come to represent - elitist self-serving interests, and so it is hard for me to have much sympathy for the GOP.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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