Democratic Kool-Aid

Recent reports from the MSM and the new CBS/NYTimes Poll that exposes Ohioans' severe dissatisfaction with the GOP and Generalissimo Dubya seem to be providing some tasty Kool-Aid for the Democratic Party--they're beginning to finally believe in themselves, that they can at least take over one of the legislative bodies in November.

Call me a skeptic, but I don't see it happening. And one of my previous posts about the odds from Vegas substantiates my skepticism.

In fact, there's an odd line of thought out there that actually controlling one of the legislative bodies would put the Dems at a strategic disadvantage for the '08 presidential election. The specious reasoning is that since the Dems would have some bit of control (albeit against a probably energized arch-conservative block), voters would then hold them responsible for the Iraq mess, the economy, among other matters currently going to hell in a handbasket.

That strange paranoia I think is far outweighed by the potential power of Democrats to investigate war profiteering, etc. and the power to subpeona.

Nevertheless, if you go by this writer's recent column, I like the agenda that the Dems would lay out if they're successful.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701094.html