June 13, 2007 (LPAC)--President George Bush's "President's Dinner" tonight in New Hampshire is expected to raise only $7.5 million--half the amount it raised last year. Since the quotas for all Congressmen are the same as 2006, the expectation apparently is that the quotas will not be met.

A long line of Republicans is forming to lay the blame on Bush for the Party's poor prospects. After Bush visited the Republican Senators' weekly luncheon on June 12, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME.), said Senators Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) lost re-election in 2006 because of Bush. "It's definitely because of the President and his policies, more from the standpoint of immovability and not being willing to adjust policies in response to real-time circumstances." Snowe told fellow GOP Senators at the luncheon, that they would still be the majority if not for Bush's failures, according to The Hill.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt distributed fundraising talking points to Republicans for tonight's dinner, noting "The odds are against Republicans as we take up the fight to strengthen and rebuild our majority."

Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), an outspoken critic of the Iraq War, said of the Republican Congress' relationship with Bush, "We had better relationships with the [White House] legislative affairs shop when [Bill] Clinton was the Presdient--even after we impeached him."

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), former chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee, recommended that Bush keep a low profile on immigration. "I think [Bush's] credibility among most Americans and members of his party [on immigration] is so low, that those who would like to see an immigration bill would like to see [Bush's] role to be muted."