Going Democratic might not deliver anything but more of the same.

Tristero muses over what could happen...or not happen if the Congress goes Democratic.

Recounts in several races by ousted Republicans, costing time and money.

Any attempt at investigations into anything will be met with cries about misplaced revenge and payback time.

Bush could actively ignore or defy laws passed by the new Congress.

So:
"Congress wouldn't dare to substantively repeal the "Patriot" Act or the Torture Act or anything else that central to Bushism. I believe that Bush will, as he has done since the beginning, continue to play chicken with the US Constitution, daring Congress to force the constitutional crisis he's created, which has been going on since before he took office, into a full-blown public meltdown. And I believe, just as they did with the filibuster, that Congress will back down to prevent a public meltdown from happening. Congress, either Dem-controlled or not, will prefer to avoid a very frightening confrontation with a rogue presidency - that could lead who knows where - in the hopes that Bush's insane challenge to the very structure of the US government simply will end when Bush leaves office in 2009."


This scenario conjectures that we are just going to hang on and try to survive the last two years. Even if Bush goes batshit crazy. Even if we attack Iran. Even if we turn into the rogue superpower that uses nukes in preemptive strikes.

Even when we become a terrorist nation.

Even though all recent actions taken by Congress fit nicely into this hypothesis, I do hope he is wrong.