The Long Experiment With Professional Politicians And

Baby Boomers Becoming Republicans While Dems Become Outdated.

The Bush Administration Has Now Provided Three Case Studies In Arrogance, Isolation And Destructiveness: Michael Brown During Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer In Baghdad And Secretary Paulson At Treasury. It Is A Tragic And Very Expensive Legacy. No Conservative And No Republican Should Doubt How Much It Has Hurt Our Cause And Our Party.

We Used To Be A Serious Country. When We Got Attacked At Pearl Harbor, We Took On Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany. We Beat All Three In Less Than Four Years. We're About To Enter The Seventh Year Of This Phony War Against ... [terrorist Groups], And We're Losing.

That Will Change Over Time The Entire Flow Of Information And The Entire Quality Of Knowledge In The Country And It Will Change The Way People Will Try To Play Games In The Legislative Process.

People Like Me Are What Stand Between Us And Auschwitz.