Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Republicans, to be sure, are still plenty full of crazy. The ideological zeal remains almost fully intact, but the political zeal -- the sheer bloody-minded insistence that steadfastness would invariably bring triumph -- is always the first to flag. Signs have been popping up for a few weeks now. At their retreat last month, a pollster told House Republicans that their polling numbers had collapsed while Congressional Democrats have actually seen theirs improve. |