Your conclusion is false. Once these "conservative Dems" (c'mon) get to Washington, the radical lunatics who control the RAT Party will tell them how to talk, poop and vote.
Re the Senate . . . the Senate has been in liberal hands for years. So what the "majority" was Republican. The ideology of the Senate was firmly in liberal hands years before Election Day 2006. The Senate is now just far more liberal and the Dems now control the chairmanships.
There is no sugarcoating here and you would serve yourself well not to do that. A RAT would say anyting to get elected. Have you observed Hillary Clinton's actions to "move to the center"? The only center she will ever move to is far left of Ted Kennedy. Don't thiink for a second that a newbie RAT who ran as a "conservative" will vote conservative--they will be ostracized by the socialists who run things if they don't act like a RAT.
The moonbat posterboy, Lamont, lost,... big.