Reply #16: "The hasty stroke oft goes awry." (Sun Tzu, meet Shakespeare) [View All]

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It'll take time for investigations to bear fruit, and we can also expect further "gifts" from the Abramoff and Libby cases. While these are unfolding, the Dems need to show substantive progress on many issues which bedevil most Americans: health care, wages, Iraq, money in politics, the deficit, tax justice, corrupted voting system, etc. When (not "if") the administration's perfidy is revealed the Dems will be in a stronger position to go with it.
I think that the apparent rush to action, as evidenced by Pelosi's 100 hr. strategy, also keeping Congress in session through January, plus reform efforts already announced by Kerry (small business health insurance), Leahy (Patriot Act) and others are all aiming at one thing---make an immediate positive impact so as to have a strategic advantage.