Wash. Post tells us that Republicans are turning on themselves

It's getting ugly on Capitol Hill. Republican fratricide is becoming an epidemic. Couldn't happen to a better group of people:

House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November.

In huddles, closed-door meetings and hastily arranged conference calls, some Republicans demanded the head of their political chief, while others decried their leadership as out of touch with the political catastrophe they face.

GOP leaders sought yesterday to "re-brand" the party with a new slogan and renewed pledges of fiscal rectitude and limited government. But the slogan -- "The Change You Deserve" -- came under mocking fire, because it parallels Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" motto and it mirrors the advertising slogan for the antidepressant Effexor.

And, you know some GOP consultant got paid a lot of money to come up with that mock-worthy slogan. They don't even believe in change.

Also, lest we forget, not too long ago, the D.C. pundits believed Karl Rove when he said that America was becoming a GOP nation. This is Rove from November of 2002:

''Things are moving in a new direction,'' Mr. Rove said in his first extended public remarks since the elections last week. ''It's not just that Republicans picked up three seats in the Senate or six or seven or eight seats in the House. It's something else more fundamental, but we'll only know what it is in another two years or four years.''

After four years, Democrats took control of the House and Senate. After six, we'll have the White House back. And, for laughs, read this recap of a Sunday show interviews with Rove after the 2004 election.

Look at where Bush and Rove have gotten the GOP now.