Dems have gone after DeLay only after figuring out that GWB is our tar baby...they wasted tremendous energy, money, and political capital going after Bush (even after the election).
Weakened from their efforts against our tar baby, they're only now really going after smaller game (and they'll still fail).
Devoid of new and popular ideas, Democrats can only hope for (or engineer) a scandal against Republicans. It's all that they've got.
1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.
For example, in addition to the President's State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton's office at the State Department.
The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don't know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]
Um. It just seemed so "fitting". :)