Something like that shouldn't be on television. Graham Segroves of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force was even more pacific. It could be a kissing reference. Begala was out of the country on Monday and unable to return NR's phone calls. Republicans haven't enjoyed that kind of power since the 1920s.
Republicans have trouble putting competent, principled people in the jobs they control now.
They will have thousands more jobs to fill if they do well in November. To fill jobs in Washington, conservatives would probably have to raid their state think tanks and the staffs of some of the more reform-minded governors and state legislators. A surprising number of such folks, however, do not realize that they will usually be expected to have made some minimal effort for the winning candidate before they can get a political appointment. And each check yields a marginal increase in the probability that conservatives will be dealing with this problem next year, and not the unhappier one of having to find new jobs. The National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank based in Dallas, has a new website that lets you calculate how much you are likely to pay in Social Security taxes, what you're likely to receive from the program, and how much you could have made by investing that money for a reasonable return.