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However, it's far more likely that the GOP will regain control based on the past track record of the Dems when they gain power. Already investigations are being promised. Subpoenas are being readied. The inevitable result will be more divisiveness and partisan acrimony.

Dream on. It took the Dems 12 years to regain the House. It took the Reps 40 years to gain it. We will have a tough time hanging on to what we have. We are not going to get back the seats lost in NY, CT, and PA. The Dems will be targetting the few that are left in the Northeast.

Hoping the Dems will shoot themselves in the foot is a losing strategy. They now control the agenda and the megaphone. They will use these investigations to tar Reps as being corrupt and inept and unworthy to be running things. The one thing the Dems know best is how to use the levers of power and stay in office. Hell, they were running things in the Senate with only 44 senators.

"Dream on. It took the Dems 12 years to regain the House. It took the Reps 40 years to gain it. We will have a tough time hanging on to what we have. We are not going to get back the seats lost in NY, CT, and PA. The Dems will be targetting the few that are left in the Northeast.

Hoping the Dems will shoot themselves in the foot is a losing strategy. They now control the agenda and the megaphone. They will use these investigations to tar Reps as being corrupt and inept and unworthy to be running things. The one thing the Dems know best is how to use the levers of power and stay in office. Hell, they were running things in the Senate with only 44 senators."

I think you're still a little disgruntled that we lost this year. Fortunately, the Democrats are their own worst enemy and, while I'm not making big predictions for a comeback in 2008, I think that we have to see 2006 in perspective. We lost terribly - BUT it could have been worse. We're not like the Tories in Britain or something.

There's still alot of conservative Dems holding onto seats that are a much better fit for a Republican. Just look at guys like Ike Skelton in Missouri, Gene Taylor in Mississippi and Mike McIntyre in North Carolina - not to mention a number of conservative Dems in Arkansas, Texas and West Virginia. If these guys retire, the GOP has a great shot at winning. And, yes, we do have a good chance of recapturing a number of seats in a better environment.

It took the Dems 12 years to regain the House. It took the Reps 40 years to gain it. Irrelevant. Those forty years were dominated by the southern states identifying as democrats on social issues. That's no longer True. We will have a tough time hanging on to what we have. We are not going to get back the seats lost in NY, CT, and PA. Santorum will be missed but he might not be gone forever. A lot of RINOs got knocked off and truth be known, I'd rather have a liberal rat in a seat than a RINO. The Dems will be targetting the few that are left in the Northeast. Let 'em. Can you name me a solid conservative that holds a Republican seat in the northeast?

Hoping the Dems will shoot themselves in the foot is a losing strategy. It's worked before. They now control the agenda and the megaphone. Yeah and that megaphone will emphasize the ineffectiveness of their strategies for governing. They have no real workable ideas. God help them if we get hit again or there is some other major act of terror against US interests overseas. God help them (all both of them that believe in HIM) if the gas prices spike on their watch.

A lot of the Dems that were voted in actually ran as conservatives. If they are subject to manipulation to subvert those articulated values...they may find themselves booted after one term.