Chuckwagon: House AND Senate?

2:18 pm EST August 28th, 2006 | Democrats | 5 Comments

Probably way too optimistic, but here you go anyway.

Barring an unexpected and big event, Democrats will win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November and conceivably the Senate, too. Whether it’s a tsunami or just a powerful wave, the political dynamics are moving in that direction, or more accurately, against the Republicans and President George W. Bush.

Democratic insiders, who months ago thought their chances of winning a majority in the House were no better than even, and that the Senate was a lost cause, have become far more optimistic. Now, they say, winning the House is a lock, and the Senate is within reach.

“We have to go back to 1974 (during Watergate) to find such a favorable environment,” says James Carville, who ran Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. “If we can’t win in this environment, we have to question the whole premise of the party.”

More telling is that the smartest Republican political minds agree. “The issue matrix and political dynamics are not good for us,” says Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican. “Only some big national or international event before the election can change that.”

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5 Responses to “Chuckwagon: House AND Senate?”

  1. Tuco Ramirez the Rat says:
    August 28, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    And if they do, and, as is widely speculated, they appoint Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, will you, Mr. “Culture of Corruption,” point out the fact that Hastings was impeached by the House for corruption and perjury and became only the sixth Judge in the history of impeachment in the United States to be removed from office by the United States Senate?

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    August 28, 2006 at 2:53 pm

    I’ll even go further and point out that I abstained from voting for Hastings in 1998 when I lived in his district. But then, what has the current chairman of the intel committee done in service of oversight?

  3. Muzza says:
    August 28, 2006 at 3:49 pm

    Prepare for a code orange or two. Hey, if things get real desperate they’ll probably start looking for OBL again.

  4. Duros62 says:
    August 28, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    Barring an unexpected and big event,

    Heh, indeed.

  5. amberglow says:
    August 28, 2006 at 6:57 pm

    that big national or international event is probably being prepared right now by the administration.