Democrats' Hope for 2006

The Democrat Party is salivating over the opportunity to make great gains in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2006 mid-term elections--possibly even wresting control from the Republicans in both branches.

President Bush's fallen popularity, the Abramoff scandal, the Delay problems, NSA disclosures, etc., (not to mention the MSM's continual left leaning harps over the horrible life all Americans must endure) have all given Democrats new-found hope.

However, taking back either the House or the Senate will take not only the unseating of sitting Republicans, but it will require the Democrats to hang onto nearly every seat they currently own.

Writing in Townhall, Dustin Hawkins explains why holding onto a safe Democratic Senate seat in Maryland isn't going to be as easy as first thought, and why it is the Democrat's own fault.

Yet while Steele is unlikely to face any real primary opposition, he has had to deal with various attacks from his opponents – attacks that certainly have not helped the Democratic Party’s image and could only help Steele in the long run. Steele is not an unpopular figure in the state, certainly not for a Republican, and several incidents have been negatively perceived.

Members of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a group headed by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), illegally obtained copies of Steele’s credit report. Steele has been called an “Uncle Tom” and one liberal blog even posted a distorted picture of him as a white minstrel in blackface.

For a while, some high-profile Democratic operatives shrugged off the incidents and suggested Steele should expect such tactics. Nevertheless, the negative effects of these racially tinged tactics have only added to the Democrat Party’s woes.

It is very hard to have sympathy for the Democrats. They have lost both branches of congress in recent years, have lost the last two Presidential elections, hold a minority of state houses, and are losing their once deathly grip over the judiciary. But, rather than reflecting on possible mistakes past and changing course, they simply scream harder at the indignity, as if the electorate voted them out of office over an acute hearing problem.

Hey, it isn't the hearing of the voters that is suffering, they just don't like what they are hearing.