They are in tears over this speech over at DU.
It's about two things:
1) Gin the base. They are WAY BEHIND in fund raising (notice, NO MSM stories on this subject = bad news for the Dims.)
2) An attempt to nationalize the 2006 congressional elections, framing their argument for reassuming power in terms of the decision to go to war in Iraq (risky, because things will probably be better and people hate dealing with cognitive dissonance), Republican corruption (probably their best bet -- a gift from a few Republicans who should probably be imprisoned), and this tortured example of Federal Wiretaps (very risky, because most people think it is a good idea to tap the phones of terrorists).
In short, the increasingly psychotic Democrats come up short again. just made a little more difficult by a few criminal Republican pols who need to be tried, convicted, and thrown in prison.