Ezra Klein cautions Democrats against counting their chickens.

Also, they're going to hold hearings in Congress and around the country like those the Repubs did with immigration. The difference is most likely to be that they're using this not to listen, but to lecture and criticize Bush.

“At no time is congressional oversight more important than when the men and women of our armed forces are engaged in combat to defend our freedom,” Dorgan and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wrote in a letter to Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in which the Democrats invited Senate Republicans to attend their hearings.

Congressional oversight? This sounds like an effort to intrude into the powers of the President. We all know pretty well how they'd run the war. They'd prevent the CIA interrogations of detainees, set a date for withdrawal, cut funding for the Missile Defense and take more counsel from the United Nations.