The Democrats Hall of Mirrors

No wonder the Democrats so passionately hate George Bush. It has nothing to do with the war, it's just that he has preempted them on just about every other issue.

That’s why instead of a real debate or an alternative agenda, we get more of the same old, same old: flushed Korans, federal blame for floods in New Orleans, or purported fibs by Scooter Libby — always on the outside chance that some misdemeanor might still turn into a Monica-like felony, and thus make up for Democrats’ inability to provide a comprehensive alternative agenda.

If Karl Rove has copied former Clinton adviser Dick Morris’s playbook, then the frustrated Democrats of the House and Senate in turn have modeled themselves after the crabby contrarian Republican Congress of 1998 — and we all know who ultimately won that showdown.

It doesn't make me particularly happy that he has managed to outspend Democrats, but doing so has crippled the opposition.