[speed_addiction]

I think you are wrong. Tomorrow will tell, IMO; if he shows up to grill Condi Rice, he's not going into hiding. FWIW, I still believe we will shortly be hearing one of his classic "anti-war" speeches from the floor of the Senate; he's got one he's been making since he attacked Lyndon Johnson when he was a senior in college; he's been using the same text since then, so all he has to do is change the names to Bush and Iraq.

For the next few months he will be a bit more relevant, seeing as how he was the losing candidate and all. After that he will disappear and appear occassionally with a firey speech on the floor of the Senate. Look at how marginalized Al Gore is now.

[Howlin]

You don't honestly believe "conventional wisdom" concerning how things usually happens in the real world applies to the situation the Democrats are in right now, do you?