Now even Democrats are admitting that they may lose the House entirely. Maybe this is why ... voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen. Those issues would be education, Iraq, the economy, healthcare, social security, government ethics, national security, Afghanistan, taxes and immigration. As of right now I don't necessarily think that the Republicans have earned the trust of the American people on these issues ... it's just that the Democrats have destroyed the trust people had in them. We have to pull for the GOP right now .. but if they move into power in Congress we have to work just as hard to hold them accountable and make sure they don't betray the voter's trust like they did the last time.

In the meantime, what is becoming the "wedge issue" between Democrats and Republicans? The growing gap between government and private sector workers. In case you missed John Boehner's speech the other day, he points out the illogic behind the growing number of government jobs (and their growing salaries) compared to the dwindling numbers of the private sector. He said, "We've seen not just more government jobs, but better-paying ones too .. It's just nonsense to think that taxpayers are subsidizing the fattened salaries and pensions of federal bureaucrats who are out there right now making it harder to create private sector jobs." Republican attempts to freeze federal salaries have all been rejected by the Democrats. There's a big shocker - the Democrats depend on these government hacks to keep them in office. So long as they have their paychecks and smoking breaks and outrageous pension plans, the Democrats have no reason but to keep these people fat and happy.

Stories like this don't help paint a pretty picture for government employees - In Norfolk, Virginia a Community Services Board employee collected a salary with benefits for 12 years and never showed up for work. How does this happen? If you work in the private sector, if you own your own business, can you imagine paying a salary for someone who didn't show up for work? For twelve years! The private marketplace has no room for this level of lunacy. Government clearly does.