With A Little Bit o' Luck

So, I get a phone call from my pal, Katy, tonight because she and her husband are watching what we affectionately call the "Snooze" better known as the News Hour. Her husband, who was enjoying a cocktail, wanted her to call me because no less than David Brooks said that the Democrats would take the house with at least 30 new members.

You have to understand that I live in a District where the DCCC didn't bother to run a candidate (not that that has stopped them from sending me emails begging for money) so I perhaps don't feel the winds of change here in Polk County. Could it be true? Could we actually manage to have more than just a one seat majority? Brooks also said he thinks we will take the Senate.

Is it the accumulation of so much bad news that republicans won't be able to sweep it out of the doorway to get to the polls? I guess with Ney pleading guilty today, the new book saying that the Bush administration is using the Christian Right (duh!), Bob Woodward's new book, Mark Foley, the cover up of Mark Foley, at least 46 American soldiers killed in Iraq this month, the Brits "cutting and running", James Baker's report telling Bush to "cut and run" and that's just this month!

Krugman called it the perfect storm in his op-ed this morning. Maybe he's right. I hope so.

Wouldn't it be lovely to have just a smidge of accountability in government? Wouldn't that be a lovely change?