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There is no way on GOD's green earth that the Republicans will ever gain any ground in 2010! keep dreaming guys. After the crap you guys pulled in the Bush years. forget it!

Yeah, but here's the thing: In the long run, this country's getting more diverse and more liberal. Rich white folks and poor rural white folks are going the way of the passenger pigeon. Once the baby boom finally kicks the bucket, they're going to be in really serious trouble. The conservatives may have a few little victories here and there the next few decades, but they've already lost the war and they know it. Sucks trying to use 1950's ideas to deal with a 21st century world. Have a nice day!

I guess the question is what races does he see a likely win. I'd like to know because some of the people out there seem, well, out there. I do have to say that the Republican seat in FL is likely to stay there because of Crist.

After this past year, nothing could ever make me vote for a Republican again for any office in any capacity!

I predict a 75-25 senate seat for the Democrats after 2010. America is tired of the right wing, fearmongering, lying, status quo lovers, for the rich ideas.

Sorry, America has moved on and we are ready to "change" America in the right direction.

"We have a very real opportunity to make gains in the Senate next year....."

The greatest gain for the American people would be for Senator Cornyn to be defeated in 2010.............

yes this is going to be the one. i think this is right on

It must be Party first and all the Rep ever told us about country first was a lie!!

The only people who believe the Presidents policies are unpopular, are the extreme right wing/Republicans. Also what positive policies are the Rebublicans putting into place? Nothing, the Republicans do nothing but complain. Instead of going against everything the President does or says, try and work toghether. People would notice that and yall would have more than the, right wing extreme voters.

Positive agenda, are you kidding me? With calls from the onset to derail any attempt of healthcare reform to cripple the President's standing, with the negative hate filled and ignorant lies spread about the President, his plans and efforts, they're now going to have a positive agenda?

And didn't they do everything to criticize the President from the onset for his positive hope filled message?

A positive agenda from the GOP, when pigs fly......

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"but we must continue to offer our own positive agenda as an alternative to the Democrats' increasingly unpopular policies," Cornyn wrote."[sic]

Republicans are so out of touch if they think their base speaks for most Americans. They don't speak for me.

"While we have the momentum on our side right now"

Momentum? What momentum? You've got nothing. No ideas, no plans, no goals, no leaders who can work together... You are so out of touch with America. You only see delusions of your own self importance.

YES indeed, pull all of the radical right wing splinters groups together and you all are sure to do something...not sure what ...but one thing IS for sure...you will not win. You need us moderates and I ain't seen ANYTHING different fron last Nov. Same OLD players...same old negative crap; only the current GOP press hedges on militant and agressively reactionary. Your futures lie with Olympia Snow and Susan Collins.

We've watched the Republicans with their lies and hate and fear-mongering all summer.

You right-wing fringe nutjobs have helped a lot of people make up their minds to never vote for you again. Ignorance and prejudice to not appeal to most people in this country.

Thanks GOP.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn emphasized Republican fundraising and recruiting successes for the upcoming midterm elections,

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Always about getting elected – never about the good of the country. The GOP had their chance – didn't work on reforming immigration, health care, SS, the tax code of anything else: Their alternative budget this year? 19 pages with No Numbers! They never fail because they never attempt anything!

What planet are you living on Corny?? There is no Republican gain. The GOP has no momentum at all and don't represent the American people as t Get that grease out your behind.

"but we must continue to offer our own positive agenda" – Cornyn.

Hunh? More deregulation? Health reform that further lines the pockets of special interests (insurance companies and drug manufacturers (Medicare part D anyone?))?

The real question is will the majority of independents see the Republican tactics for what they really are?

He should be hopeful. At this point, the libs are finding out that people voted for a carefully crafted, if completely false image presented by the clown who won the presidency. He has only been in office 9 months, but if they held the election again today, John McCain would be the president and we would have a Republican congress.

Your positive agenda is distorting information to make the Republicans look better. The pure hypocrisy that you have exhibited on your deep concerns for the elderly and Medicare make me just plain sick. All you guys want to do is get rid of it altogether but you stand up their and lie like dogs to people who most likely don't have the opportunity to really understand. Shame on you!

this guy should also be on the list of those retiring because the voters themselves will RETIRE him................RISE UP fellow latinos

Mr GOPER , You are the next one in line to be kicked out in the next election, as you know that your self and your fellow Gopers don't have any new idias to offer to American people other than fear and tax cut......It won't cut it this time, be prepaired to change and offer something new if you have any................

Jobn Cronyn is as partisan as you can get and in my opinion will. lie, cheat or anything else to try to get a leg up on the democratic party. He never has or will work the democrats to get anything passed that was not a tax cut or a hand out to the special interests that own him.

He is like Tom DeLay, there is nothing he will not do to further the interest of the rich and powerful who have financed his campaigns and who knows what else.

Thats all the Republicans is concerned about now is 2010 and 2012 Well one question to Republicans What are you going to do now? We need you to help President Obama with this country since its country first for you! What about helping with Health Care Reform, Education, and other issues beside war, We know you are trying to win the white house in 2012 thats why its so debate going on across the country about the President being a Socialist,he is not a U.S. citizen and other attacks thats going on. But we are tired of the same lame do nothing agenda from the Republicans. Democrats need to wake up the Republicans are trying to defeat you,remember they said they want their country back and they want to break the President thats what their agenda is.

Oh, and to be clear, when I said "Obama's not doing anything that justifiably creates the GOP's criticisms"...that doesn't mean he's not doing anything that doesn't merit criticism...it' sjust that the GOP latches onto nonsense like death panels instead of addressing real issues. They're either not smart enough to spot the issues or afraid they'll lose the argument over something that actually matters, so they regress into cartoon politics.

John Cornyn doesn't come up with better or new policies that outdoes his counterparts, he just sits and criticises like every other GOP'er does.

No. Republicans do not have a positive agenda and they deserve to lose all their seats, hopefully to progressives.

being negative is never momentum, it's just being negative. never works for long.

Momentum, Cornyn? You mean the fringe group my former Republican Party has become with the birthers, deathers, teabagger hypocrisy, foot-in-mouth syndrome, paranoia, C-Street, faux outrage over EVERY little thing, etc.? No thanks!

"we must continue to offer our own positive agenda"

Now that would be something new. Republicans have never in their existance had a 'positive agenda". The only way for them to have a positive agenda is by changing ALL of their policies and beliefs. And I just don't see them being able to cease the retarded nature that is the republican philosophy.

If saying no is positive, then the good senator has proven that his party is the most positive force on the planet.

On another note, Senator Grassley has been lukewarm to Senator Baucus's preliminary offer. I suppose because its beyond the 17-page limit his party seems to favor: he won't read it until Rush puts out a dummy's version on the air, complete with sneers and putdowns.

Excellent point... to continue to offer excellent ideas that make sense and really are in the best interests of the American people.

We look around and see only politicians on both sides dedicated to gaining political ground. We were so tired of 'grid lock'under the Bush Administration, and now 'PUSH lock' under the Obama administration

We must PUSH back with POSITIVE ideas and POSITIVE actions.

I would be very proud of the Republicans if they really stopped the negative campaigning this year. It would be Change we could appreciate.

They can raise as much money as they want, but they're stall tactics are going to blow up in their faces. This is all about two things:

1. Keeping the insurance companies funding their campaigns and getting their favorite people big time jobs with healthcare and,

2. Keeping Obama from getting credit for this because if we do have a black President, they want to make sure that he fails so miserably that it will be another 400 years before another one is elected.

Anybody with half a brain would never vote Republican. The party has been taken over by religious zealots and fear- and hate-mongers who care only about power and money, at the express of our country and our freedoms.

Many of my friends and relatives who are registered Republicans are voting for Democrats and for the few local Republicans who have not been swept up in the crazy obstructionist tactics promoted at the GOP national level.

These friends and relatives are social progressives, who believe in the First Amendment freedoms and the Constitution – and they are greatly saddened by what has happened to their party.

The republicans are making me very angry. I will be working hard to see them lose ground in 2010.

Republicans still think they can make the Earth flat again.
You go, guys !

I don't kow what Mr. Cornyn is so worried about. Tx will have probably secceeded from the union by 2010.

As far as I am concerned, if no health care bill is passed this year, you should forget about 2010. I am tired of the infighting between Dems and Reps.

The Grand Obstructionist Party had 8 yrs to offer a positive agenda but failed to do so. Sure, there will be more GOP retirement by the time the Dems are finished with the dwindling Southern whiltemen only party.

Cornyn seems to be one of those GOPers that "gets it"

"What planet does he live on?"
The American people are getting so sick of the hypocrasy, lies, distortions, party first mentallity of the republicans, do not see how
any can be voted into office.
A party that is out to destroy our president, our country and us most certainly is not what our country wants or needs.
The republicans are becoming our most dangerous domestic
terrorists.

Positive Republican agenda? Is that what Cornyn wrote? Positive? What's "positive" about it? That it is "positively" devisive? That it "positively" does nothing for most Americans, just like the last administration? That it is positively about whining and moaning and not offering anything constructive toward solving America's myriad problems, many of which were caused by the last administration? Lemme guess. It's more of calling the president a socialist and claiming that he was elected solely by what's left of the dwindling media in this country? And, of course, it also means not defining what "media" means. Good luck with that one. GOP, go for a Palin/Bachmann ticket for 2012. That should be interesting. It would be good for laughs, or at least a good horror movie, anyway.

Cornyn is a cocky jockey on the horse of election planning. If he thinks he or his supporter is goin' to win, so be it. Let the voters decide for all of us, brother.

Hello!!!!!!
Republicans have no alternative policies... they only have a wacked agenda of No... and Division

I and many, many other disenfranchised independents will be working tirelessly to rid the house and senate of corrupt liberal democrats in 2010... and to assist level headed blue dog democrats.

Just a tune-up for the GOP taking back 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in 2012.

lost at sea

the GOP has no idea where it is and hopelessly is listening to the wrong people