Reflecting the remarkable divergence between the fortunes of the Congressional GOP and their presidential nominee, another Republican House member, Tom Reynolds of New York’s 26th District, has announced his retirement, leaving yet another open seat for the cash-strapped, overwhelmed NRCC to defend.  As you will remember, Reynolds was ensnared in the Foley scandal (he was the one who urged him to run for re-election in spite of his undue interest in young pages), which nearly cost him his seat last time, and he was also the head of the NRCC during the debacle in 2006.  With Reynolds gone there will be virtually no one left from the old, pre-2006 leadership crew, which is something of an improvement, but that will be cold comfort when the GOP loses an upstate New York district that it probably should have held. 

Cue James‘ skeleton crew references.