The Dems will see to that. Unless Bush rubberstamps everything they want, they can blame a bad economy or the war in Iraq or terrorism on Bush. The Dems will continue to make him the villian for everything that goes wrong. Moreover, Congress will be investigating the Administration to get more ammunition.
And people didn't really like the democrats, they polled very badly, just they were the only alternative.
I don't know what people you are talking about, but the voters did make their feelings known. They want change, and maybe that includes the WH aw well.
The only way I see democrats not being a reasonable target for 2008 is if they govern like fiscal conservatives, in which case it might not be bad if we CAN'T beat them. IF they ever act like liberals, I think we should be able to take them out.
This is where the Dems are vulnerable. We should hold them to their promise about pay-go. The only problem is that they will cut defense to fund education. There are some real problems ahead with the entitlement programs. Unlike 1983, we should not go along with their solutions. We should press for private accounts and then let the Dems take the heat for raising FICA taxes, raising the retirement age, and reducing benefits.
And some of what democrats promised about lobbying reform will be good if they pass it.
This is a trojan horse. The Dems will protect their lobbyists.
FIrst, they promised to increase defense spending. At least the ones I followed closely did, the ones running as conservatives.
I would feel much better if Allen had won so we still had nominal control of the Senate, but in some ways having a new batch of supposedly fiscal conservative democrats could be a good thing.
Anyway, the exit polls showed the independents still called themselves independent, not democrats, which suggests that while they pulled the lever for democrats, they didn't want to be CALLED democrats.