CNN: The end of a revolution (a summary of this week’s Time magazine cover story)
After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush’s time in office, the GOP’s governing record has dismayed those who fantasized about what Newt Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that muddied one of the party’s few remaining patches of moral high ground. And if Republicans worried it would hurt their chances of keeping the House, they were right….