"They didn't win; we just lost"

from Today's Papers:

On the front page of the Post, Karl Rove blames his party's election losses on various scandals swirling around Republicans. "We were on a roll, and it stopped it," he said of the Mark Foley scandal. Over on the NYT's Op-Ed page, outgoing Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee believes that "poisonous partisanship" cost the Republicans their majority.

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Ah yes, the old "stabbed in the back" theory.

Why, it just couldn't have been something silly like... THE ISSUES.