From The New Republic’s Rotten On The Inside: “In a remarkably open rebellion, Republican members of Congress and party strategists decried Bush’s role in bringing down the Republican ‘brand,’ the party’s failure to offer new policies, and the futility of campaigns rooted in the 1980s and ’90s. Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, who is retiring, confessed to me that if his party ‘were dog food, they’d take us off the shelf and put us in a landfill.’”