Viet American Votes May Swing San Jose Election

The candidates are within two percentage points of one another, a statistical dead heat. In late September, however, Reed was leading by 12 points, a very comfortable margin six weeks before the election. Just ask Angelides.

What happened then? The shift in momentum can be traced to a seemingly pervasive problem haunting republicans this year: hypocrisy and arrogance.

Ever since the GOP took over Congress in 1994, and especially the last six years when they dominated all three branches of government, republicans have been riding rough shod over this country, largely unchallenged and virtually unimpeded.

They impeached Bill Clinton unsuccessfully, but still managed to distract the country for the better part of a year and divide America along the so-called “family values.” They stole the election in 2000, fair and square. They used Terry Schiavo, comatose for 15 years, as a wedge issue on life and death matters. They botched the aftermath of Katrina.

The republicans latched onto the 9/11 tragedy as a blank check for their shady agenda. They neglected Al-Qaeda and Osama, the real culprits, and embarked on the quagmire of Iraq. Under false pretenses, no less.

But as Lincoln, one of this nation’s better republicans said, “You can’t fool all the people all the time.” And the GOP had imploded from its own arrogance and excesses. The “Hammer” Tom Delay, ruthless and efficient as former Majority Leader, had to resign from Congress altogether. Duke Cunningham, a Vietnam veteran, is serving time for corruption. Bob Ney just pleaded guilty. Jack Abramoff is singing.

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