If the GOP does not now trash the farm bill…

…they will be beyond saving.

Especially now that Nancy Pelosi – as incompetent a House Speaker as has ever held the post – has decided that Congress does not even have to send the president whole and complete bills (staggering arrogance!), if the GOP does not find the gumption to first DEMAND a revote and then do a 180 and represent the will of the people over their own fat, they deserve to lose everything, for the foreseeable future.

Ed Morrissey explains it better than I can.

It seems to me that McCain and the GOP can pull out a last-minute rehabilitation of themselves before the election if they take a few really sensible steps:

1) Start demanding that America drill, process and refine her own energy resources (and consider serious alternatives and nuclear power) instead of being held hostage to foreign governments while China drills 75 miles off our shores.

2) Start making serious noise about the do-nothing, obstructionist congress that is completely out-of-order under Speak Pelosi. It wasn’t great before she got in; it is now a parody of our legislative branch.

3) Get in front of the cameras and start taking back a few narratives. Refuse to join in Obama Hosannas. Start talking about the scientists who are debunking global warming. Start to talk victory against terrorism and in Iraq and even (gasp!) take some credit and give the troops and president some credit for it too. After all, the Dems see the writing on the wall; they’re beginning to take some – they ain’t shy!

When chumps act like impotent fools, chumps get treated like impotent fools, and the GOP looks pretty damned limp.

Way back in 2005 we saw how ineffectual and complacent the GOP was, so I don’t expect them to do any of these things. When the economy was doing well, they did nothing to stop the press and the Democrats talking it down, but maybe now they can help get good news on the air.

Are they capable rejecting the narratives and standing for a difference? I doubt it. The Republicans have allowed every media meme to go unchallenged for the past 7 years, and now they face extinction for it. But if they would make an effort, take a few bulls by the horns, — if they could identify and and stop the farces instead of riding them like merry-go-rounds — they may still be able to snatch a victory from the jaws of what looks to be inexorable defeat.

I really believe in my heart that Americans are dying for someone – anyone -to stop accepting media storylines, PC framings and a status-quo of illusion, mediocrity and feckless double-talk, and just be straight and firm on these issues.

Absenting that – and I don’t see any of the three major presidential candidates willing to do any of it – I almost wish the president would adapt Bill Clinton’s attitude and take control of these issues – particularly the energy issue – by Executive Order.

Can he? I don’t know. Seems to me no one ever minded it when Bill Clinton “flicked his wrist” to make a “law of the land,” and then smiled and said, “pretty cool, eh?”

When the congress is out of control – and it seems not only out of control but out of its mind – do not the other two branches of government have a basis to step in? I’m no scholar, so it’s a serious question.

UPDATE: So now, a Democrat has called for a government takeover of the oil industry. That’s what we need, because the government runs everything else so well, it can’t even send a bill to the president. Come on, Republicans – do something or go down and go down for a long, long time.