"They did fine. And the Senate GOP will do much better a year from now - when they pick up 4, maybe 5 seats. I believe that this coming Nov., the Democrats have 17 Senator seats up for grabs/it'll be our turn to kick some butt - and regain control of the Senate!!"
Sad to say this is not correct. In 2002 there are 20 Republicans and only 14 Democrats up for re-election in the Senate. While I see a hand full we might beat I see some we could lose.
I frankly am getting very pessimistic about next year....the precedent for parties of the president in mid elections is not good. Even with this war, I don't see much to look to that would give the GOP a major win next year. We could very likely lose the House.