WELL, DUH:

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

Some of us were warning them of these problems before November of 2006. You can see how well that worked out. They need to try doing something besides stuffing their pockets with pork for a change, but how credible will that be by now?

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I am a conservative Republican (more the former than the latter) and do not want to see either Clinton or Obama in the White House.

I have been contacted by the NRCC several times by phone since the 2006 elections, and been asked for a donation since I gave in the past.

I have refused each time, telling them they need to clean up their act first.

Every time the soliciter then brings up the spectre of Hillary as President to make me cough up the cash, and every time I tell them that boogeyman won’t work anymore. I assume they’ll try the same with Obama if he’s the nominee.

So, I guess the Republican slogan for ’08 is, “Hey, I know we’re terrible, but it could always be worse.”

Yeah, that’ll work.