It's instructive that the Dims main strategy----to tar the Repubs with "culture of corruption" charges---is already dead and buried.
It hit the skids when Cong Jefferson was caught on tape taking bribes, when people who bribed him plead guilty, and when he was found having 90 large ones in his home freezer.
Concur. Even the Democrats on Washington Week in Review have conceded that the Dems have shot themselves in the foot by having a couple of Dem congresscritters turn up dirty.
And yet I don't see the makings of a "throw the rascals out" movement, either -- maybe two years from now, but right now people are more absorbed by security issues, with things like bombings and Hamas and North Korea dominating the news.
In fact, the whole Korean missile-test thing, and the Hamas and Hizbollah kidnappings and rocketings, seem timed to take political heat off Iran while they try to fade the international initiative against their drive to get the Bomb.
As someone noted on another thread, they have an ominous date coming up on August 22nd, which among other things is the date when OBL laid out his 1996 fatwa.
The BIG PICTURE isn't sizing up well for the RATS. The UN oil-for-food scam still festers. Patrick Kennedy gets rehabbed for addictive drugs in - SHAZAM - less than a month. Israel is under attack and the RATS side with the enemy. The US mainland survives an attack from radical idiots and a category 4 hurricane. McKinney assaults a cop and walks. Removing Saddam appears to be, maybe, the best military move this millennium. The (Reagan-era?) antimissile defense system seems to work. The tax cuts are producing a great economy. Now we learn that *Hillary WILL need to reinvent herself before becoming Queen.
Oh, yeah. And Billy Jeff (D-La.) took a six-figure bribe and will be up for reelection.
(Did I leave anything out?)
That big wave sounds awfully similar to a flushing toilet...