The House GOP Blame Game That Just Won’t Let Up

• By Stuart Rothenberg
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• May 19, 2008, Midnight

There is panic in the Republican streets these days. GOP elected officials and strategists ranging from Reps. Tom Davis (Va.) and Tom Cole (Okla.) to former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and Karl Rove all think their party is in free fall and needs to change. This is news? The polls have shown this for more than two years.