This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run. And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

This is the time when good candidates decide whether they are going to run, ... And the atmospherics are not good for the party right now.

They do love the president, but they have seen a Congress that doesn't seem to function well and they wonder what the heck is going on.

It's not a pretty picture out there.

If they are not worried about next November, they are whistling past the graveyard.

And when you add to that gas prices and home-heating prices that are going through the ceiling this winter, it shouldn't give much comfort to the Republicans,