So
your president is at 25% approval rating. Your attorney general is a
laughing stock who doesn’t even bother concealing his perjury and
contempt for Congress (including members of your party). Iraq continues
to spiral out of control. On just about every issue, your political
foes have the upper hand. And on that one advantage you could always
count on — cash — you’re getting blown out.

So what do you do?

Seeing that Republicans can’t function without an enemy, and seeing
that efforts to demonize scaaary Nancy Pelosi have failed disastrously,
they’re moving on to Plan B — Harry Reid.

Senate Republicans are preparing to take aim at Majority Leader
Harry Reid over the August recess for being “all talk but no
action” and helping drag the Democrat-led Congress’
approval rating to a historic low, according to a document distributed
to caucus members.

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Republican
Conference, is meeting with members yesterday and today to disseminate
a message critical of Democrats for endlessly debating the Iraq war,
stalling judicial nominations and squandering time on at least 300
investigations of the Bush administration.

“We really ought to be asking why this Democrat leadership
won’t allow Congress to move forward on serious policy
debates,” Mr. Kyl said, when asked about the talking-points
memorandum he is circulating.

The Carpetbagger Report notes:

I suppose it’s possible that I’ve heard more
breathtaking hypocrisy, but nothing comes to mind. Reid isn’t
allowing Congress to move forward? Republicans are on pace to be the
most obstructionist minority in the history of Congress, and the GOP
wants to blame Reid for blocking progress?

I suppose we should have seen this coming. Fred Hiatt went after
Reid over the weekend, at the same time as David Brooks, Bob Novak, and
a handful of other conservative media voices, suggesting some kind of
coordinated effort to blast the Majority Leader.

And now the RNC is making it official.

The lemmings are in action, their hypocrisy be damned! But isn’t it
always this way? What’s hilarious is the “ammo” Republicans are
wielding in this laughable effort, as Joe at AmericaBlog notes:

The Chair of Republican National Committee, Robert M. “Mike” Duncan,
just launched a full-scale attack on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The funny thing is that the first line of the e-mail could be a
fundraiser for Democrats:

On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called President Bush “a liar” and a “part of the culture of corruption.”

Both true.

Duncan’s e-mail devolves into a rant from there. But you have to
love the fact that the RNC is attacking Reid for doing something most
Republican will never, ever do: Tell the truth.

Despite gains in recent years, the GOP still has a vastly superior
media machine to get their message out. So I’m ecstatic that they’ve
decided to give us a helping hand by reminding people that 1) Democrats
oppose Bush, his lies, and his corruption, and 2) Democrats want to get
out of Iraq.

The dumbasses think this is going to help them, so who are we to dissuade them from that notion?