"The political situation for Republicans both in Washington and especially Ohio is just dreadful," she said. "In my short political life I’ve never seen it so dire."
The Upper Arlington Republican said the unexpectedly close race in Ohio’s 2 nd Congressional District this week — a Democratic challenger came within 4 percentage points of winning the heavily GOP area — is a harbinger of the difficulty Republicans at all levels will face at the polls.
"It’s gonna get a lot worse," she said. "It’s not just about golf outings."
Mr. Ricks said that there are approximately 130,000 of our troops still in Iraq, and according to the timetable that this administration originally put out, troops were to be pulled out starting in December 2004. Last night I heard that we have 18,000 troops in Afghanistan. If we had not invaded Iraq, but had instead sent 130,000 troops to Afghanistan, we would have had Osama by now, and we would have saved lives, time, and money. However, this administration has made miscalculation after miscalculation in going to war and the aftermath. The mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, children, and friends of our troops are suffering with every loss and every injury. We cannot let our children be sent to be slaughtered because of the mistakes of this administration. Speak up and let the media and your elected officials know that enough is enough.
