It is..
Slow Bleed, blame the Republicans for the slow bleed, then in 2008 call for full cut and run during primaries so Barak Obama gets nomination and Dems take commanding majorities in the House (Making so called "Blue Dogs" irrelevant) and the Senate (able to break fillabusters). Then, the Rats can force really stupid things down our throats like they did in the late '70s.