Syndney Blumenthal has been one of those guys who were talking truth to power long before it became popular and acceptable. This is an insightful and on point essay as to why the lockstep mentality of the Republican Party and their discipline to shut down cold Congresses oversight responsibilities may well be their undoing. George

Bush Radicalism is Leading to a GOP Crackup - The inescapable signs of disillusionment surrounding the Bush administration in its sixth year, facing a second mid-term election, suggest far more than the usual syndrome of incumbent weariness. These are the rumblings of a regime crisis.

President Bush’s whole party bears the burden of his accumulated self-generated difficulties not only because of their overwhelming scale but also because the Republicans have sustained disciplined one-party rule in which congressional oversight has been largely suppressed.

The congressional Republicans’ feeble assertion of institutional authority has made changing the Congress the only way to revive it and check and balance Bush’s radical presidency during his remaining two years.

The inescapable signs of disillusionment surrounding the Bush administration in its sixth year, facing a second mid-term election, suggest far more than the usual syndrome of incumbent weariness. These are the rumblings of a regime crisis.