A small part of the big picture

I had a revelation this morning. Ever since the Dems gained both houses of Congress, I wondered why they were still acting as if they were the minority party. They seem to be in love with the concept of looking helpless before the big bad Republicans, even though many people have pointed out that they have plenty of tools to rein in Bushco.

Then, it hit me- I remembered watching the results come in last Nov. on CNN, and how they were stunned that the Dems had won the Senate. They even called it wrong and had to correct themselves.

Seen from that perspective, this whole strategy suddenly makes sense. This was the agreed upon stratagem before the election ever occurred. The win was projected for the House, and the plan was not to win the Senate, so that the lack of progress could be blamed on the Repubs, and the investigations could have occurred with no threat of impeachment occurring- after all, the Dems didn't control the Senate, did they? They could have argued successfully that since there had been no chance of it succeeding, there was no point in doing it.

As we know, however, that didn't happen. It seems the Dem leadership didn't see fit to adjust their strategy, and instead perhaps cursed the name of Howard Dean for having tipped the scales more than they had wanted. From there, the excuses justifying the strategy are rightfully considered thin, if not outright lies.

If this is indeed the plan, how much have we lost in attempting to sweep 2008 by sacrificing 2006 until then?
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