Oh, the Tangled Web!

Howard Fineman previews the Republican strategy for this fall. Hugh Hewitt already identified the point: Whatever the issue, the Democrats aren't the answer.

Fineman sounds cynical about it, as if it were somehow a shady tactic, but every election is a comparison between two people, not necessarily two parties. If you think the war in Iraq is a big mistake, how would electing Democrats make it better? If you like Congressional witch-hunts and tedious posturing, you'll love a Democrat majority. Nancy Pelosi on Sunday stated that her major objectives, should she become Speaker, would be to raise the minimum wage and to investigate the Bush Administration. You know that rescinding the tax cuts of the past 6 years will be a priority and John Conyers will want to put reparations for descendants of slaves on the agenda.

So if this is really Rove's cunning plan, it sounds like a pretty sound strategy to me. I'm not happy with many of the Republicans in Congress, but I'm not ready to hand the government back to these bozos just to make a point.