This chart by Scott Davis says it all. Also check out Davis's charts on Unemployment and the Stock Market. Then send the link to all your Republican friends.

ThinkProgress:

Newsweek reports that in a conversation “secretly tape-recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006,” Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) “discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits.” Stevens promised Allen, “I’m gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, ‘Look … you gotta get this done’.” Two days later, Vice President Cheney undertook the unusual move of writing a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to “promptly enact” a bill to build the pipeline.

Politico's top Republicans, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, tried to come up with a plan to save the Republican Party - and basically came up empty.

1. Get a clue: Republicans need to focus on cutting taxes, slashing spending and rediscovering their edge on national security matters. More important, they need to jump ahead of Democrats in thinking anew about entitlement programs, health care, technological innovation, global trade and new energy plans.

They had 12 years under Newt Gingrich and George Bush to come up with brilliant policies that worked - and every policy they proposed was a disaster. What's going to change now?

Ever since House Republicans got their asses handed to them in the 2006 elections, they have periodically announced sweeping new strategies to win back the House, each time with lots of fanfare from the Corporate Media.

One of their major announcements was their war on earmarks, to prove they are the fiscally "responsible" party, after driving the Federal debt up from $5 trillion when Bush started to over $9 trillion now.

Sadly, instead of training their guns on the Democrats, it seems they formed a circular firing squad:

Earmark ban push prompts GOP turmoil

Senator David Vitter is a rightwing Republican from Louisiana who consistently voted against abortion and gay rights and campaigned on a strict puritanical religious-right platform. Remember this?

GOP Rep. Rick Renzi (AZ-01) was indicted last Friday on 35 counts relating to a land-swap deal - but he refuses to give up his seat.

Why does this matter? Because Republicans lost 30 seats in 2006 in part because of the Republican "Culture of Corruption" which included Duke Cunningham's massive bribery scheme and Mark Foley's abuse of House Pages.

Former Speaker Denny Hastert helped cover up Foley's abuses and resigned as Republican leader. When John Boehner (OH-8) beat out Roy Blunt (MO-7) for GOP leader, Boehner promised to end the Republican "Culture of Corruption" so Republicans could win back the House in 2008.

Reagan Administration Corruption (source: Liberals Like Christ)

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