This Is Sort of Pathetic

The Republicans are scrambling to maintain some sort of presence in Congress, and this is how one put it (From NYT):

Most of the House Republican money was spent on behalf of incumbents or in districts where a Republican is retiring, emphasizing how much the party was playing defense. By contrast, House Democrats spent most of their money in the last month going after Republican seats in Colorado, Nebraska, Washington, West Virginia and elsewhere. On Sunday, Democrats prepared one last radio advertisement to begin running Monday in an effort to claim the seat of Thomas M. Reynolds, a Republican retiring from his upstate New York district near Buffalo.

“That kind of says it all,” said Representative Thomas M. Davis III, a retiring Virginia Republican whose own suburban seat is likely to go Democratic on Tuesday. Mr. Davis said Republicans simply faced too many disadvantages heading into Election Day, including a higher number of retirements in the House and Senate, an unpopular president and an economic collapse.

“You like to see a fair fight,” said Mr. Davis, a former chairman of the Republican Congressional campaign committee, “but basically we are playing basketball in our street shoes and long pants, and the Democrats have on their uniforms and Chuck Taylors.”

"Fair fight"? Excuse me? Can we talk about the fact that the Republicans have, over the past eight years, fallen flat on their faces on every issue that matters, and even the ones that don't? You want a fair fight? Try playing the right game.

I thought this was funny:

“We agree with Chuck Schumer that this is a tectonic election,” said Rebecca Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “And if Democrats get their way, this country will shift so far left it will take generations to get back on track.”

I think that's all to the good. Most of the country thinks we're completely on the wrong track right nowm (85%, according to the latest polls), so how is fixing it a bad thing? (Oh, wait -- that 85% has to be the far-left fringe, right?)