Repugnican Scandal Clusterbombs

• Republican attack ad uses information illegally taken from law enforcement database.
  
  
• Republican Congressional Candidate likely responsible for vote suppression scare letter sent to Latinos. His own party thinks he's guilty.
  
  
• Republican under investigation solves problem by firing investigators.
  
  
• Nevada Republican Gubernatorial candidate accused of threatening rape and murder.
  
  
• Rolling Stone outlines the Worst congress ever.

Of course these are simply today's updates to the Abramoff/Ney/Foley /Reynolds /Hastert/Allen/Weldon scandal rolecall. I'm pretty sure I missed a few too.

Short of a second North Korean Nuke test - which some Republicans seem almost gleefully hoping for - I don't see how they can reverse this kind of a juggernaut of a media narrative in the time they have left. That said, here are the objective similarities and differences between the environment for Republicans on November 7 2006, and for the Democrats before the Rout of November 7 1994.