Misunderestimation (Part 23965)

clipped from www.captainsquartersblog.com The Democrats misunderstood the message of 2006. Voters wanted an end to spending and corruption, not an amplification of either or both. Republicans lost in Congress because they acted like Democrats, spending like drunken sailors. Now they want to attack Bush by spending even more wildly than the Republicans and expect him to retreat, but Bush has finally found a hill on which he can fight successfully. The S-CHIP debate showed that, and the budget-busting proposals from the Democrats will return the GOP to the side of fiscal responsibility in 2008. Of course, that assumes that the Democrats actually generate the spending bills at all before the next recess. So far, they seem very reluctant to reveal their spending plans. Perhaps they learned something after all...