The president and his advisors are so confident that Republicans will hold on to the House in November that they haven't made any plans for what to do

Diebold? Purged Voter rolls? Lack of adequate polling equipment, places and workers? Some other fix looming over the horizon - a nuclear threat from Korea to scare all the mindless idiots into voting for the party of "national security?"

Or maybe it's just that a democratic congress will not change the direction of the country all that much and the Repiglikkkanss know that.

Will a democratic congress withdraw troops from Iraq? I doubt it very much, though they indicate that in their rhetoric. Especially if armed conflict is under way with Iran, well then, troops have to stay in Iraq in their plush new multi-million dollar bases.

Will democrats develop a true energy strategy and issue federal regulations that govern building codes, CAFE standards, put money into research for alternate fuels, pass truly meaningful environmental legislation? Around this democrart controlled state there is no indication of that as party plan or strategy.

Will democrats undo trade liberalization? Hmmm, probably not. After all, both parties have pushed it for decades.
Will a democratic congress undo the regressive tax cuts, repair relations with Russia, China, Venezuela, etc? I doubt that too.

Will a democratic congress stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons? Whoops! Too late for that. How about reduce "defense" expenditures? Maybe, maybe a little. Certainly not enough.
Will a democratic congress rescind all the bad legislation the last several congresses have pumped out, such as the big pharmacy give away, the bankruptcy bill?
It doesn't seem likely.
Will it yank Roberts and Alito off the supreme court? I wish.
Will it restore funding to the VA? Probably not do that either, though they may not dismantle it as quickly.
How about reverse the privatization of the military? I think not.
Restore New Orleans with federal dollars and effort?
Nah. The market will do that.
Will the democratic congress do anything to bring the costs of education and health care under control? How about create a national health insurance system or reregulate the deregulated under the democrats electricity market?
How about the policy of running the economy through the stock market?
Will the democrats file big antitrust suits against the giant handful of conglomerates in media, energy, pharmaceuticals, food, etc? I don't think so.
Return the balance to public television and radio?

Will the democrats investigate and prosecute the vote fraud in 2000 or 2004 or the 9/11 cover-up or the creation of "intelligence to lie the country into a war of aggression or tell Israel to get out of the West bank and Gaza strip and stop terrorising and murdering the people who belong there?

Will the democrats legislate tax payer only financed campaigns thereby throwing the lobbying money out? When pigs fly. Maybe not even then.

And if Obama Hilary Clinton are the future of the democratic party, then the democratic party looks right wing and self righteous indeed.

Not to say I don't prefer the democrats. I do. In small matters they often make a small difference. But the overall direction of the country is one great big right wing trajectory and neither party seems to have any willingness to change it

I wish the democrats were a real opposition party.. . As much as I hate Gorge Bush and his flying monkeys, no democratic administration is going to alter polices in a way that suits me, not unless Dennis Kucinich is elected president with a very compliant congress..
The democrats follow the same corporatist crap.

And almost certainly we will have to listen to fake moderate, false maverick, flip flopping John McCain campaign for 2008. He'll probably win and then continue pursuing the rabid right agenda.