Bennett: The GOP Is A Party Of Slogans, Not Ideas -(still) Sen (R) Bob Bennett

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/bennett-the-gop-is-short-on-ideas-video.php?ref=fpb

"As I look out at the political landscape now, I find plenty of slogans on the Republican side, but not very many ideas," Bennett said. "And indeed, if you raise specific ideas and solutions, as I tried to do on health care with Ron Wyden, you are attacked with the same vigor as we've seen in American politics all the way back to the arguments over slavery and polygamy. You are attacked as being a wimp, insufficiently pure, and unreliable."

Bennett argued that as things stand now, Republicans could lose control of Congress as quickly as they win it.

"The pendulum will swing. And we will take control of the House -- I think that's going to happen -- and frankly, with the death of Robert C. Byrd there's a chance we will take control of the Senate as well," he said. "At which point, it's 'thank you for the slogans' and 'thank you for the election.' But in the immortal words of Robert Redford in the movie, The Candidate, 'What do we do now?'"

Not living up to one's own press will tend to waste the good stuff real fast.