The Democrats are scared and what has been mentioned before they are like a wild animal caught in a corner, and are trying to strike out to get free!
Democrats for the most part in recent years have run on domestic policies such as social security,welfare,gun control,federal assistance for the minorities,liberal agenda items such as abortion rights,gay and lesbian issues, and protect the forests!
These issues are highly successfully won on pure emotional tactics ran by the democrats!
Were as the republicans for the most part have ran on creating jobs, which emphasizes on big corportations,cutting taxes,takeing our national security seriously,and trying to limit the intrusions of government in people lives!
These two ideologies clash and are of the opposites of extremes!
The democrats are scared that they are going to lose ultimate power in the Senate, and are hell bent at makeing president Bush's job as hard as they can make it. The only reason why the democrats were so supportive of the president for the short time after september 11 is because the tragedy of that day has awakened many americans, so it would have been political suicide for the democrats to have not supported the president! Know some time has gone by and they are right back at attacking President Bush with just about anything they can get there hands on!
The funny part about this is that the democrats have not been able to be very successful at backing President Bush into a corner, it is almost like they cannot touch him, and this really pisses them off.
So inturn they will not allow appointees that president Bush has asked for to fill positions that need to be filled, and they are fighting tooth and nail to derail anything that the president wants to do. It is really a war between the republicans and democrats. And what makes this war hard to fight for the democrats is that a large percentage of the American public are behind the President! The ultimate goal for the democrats is to make the job of President Bush so hard, that if he decides to run for re-election the democrats can say that Bush failed misserable on the home front, that he did not take care of the American people!
So I would imagine very shortly you will hear issues come up concerning domestic issues to try to sway peoples opinions and votes for November. Issues such as the tax relief, the democrats want the tax relief to be suspended, there logic in this is going to be that the country is in a deficit, that there was a surplus but know there is a deficit. You will hear issues of The riches people in the country will get the most money and the working poor will get nothing concerning the tax relief. Interesting thing about that is it makes total sense as far as the tax structure is in america is that if you make more money you pay more taxes, if you make less money you pay less taxes, so concerning tax releif, it would apply the same if you make more money, of course you will get more money then someone who makes less money! You will hear issues about social security being in trouble because of the deficit, and about this issue what most people fail to see is that social security comes out of the general fund, there is no social security problem, the money is budgeted right out of the general fund, and you will hear issues on how the president and republicans want to destabilze the economy even more by takeing america into a war with Iraq. I also would not be surprised if gun issues come up either, especially since Ashcroft came out and said he supports the individual right of people to own firearms, I am sure the democrats will find away to smear the republicans on this issue also!
Anyway the democrats are scared, they know it, and alot of american people know it to, unfortunetly alot of democrat supporters have not figured it all out because they are so blinded as to what all the facts are to the many issues at hand!And they want to stay in power, so they will fight tooth and nail to maintian the status quo!
It is going to get pretty ugly here in the states between know and the November elections!
Guarenteed!
In my opinion Daschel put another nail in his coffin politically yesterday with his emotional nervous breakdown, but then again I am sure that if you ask a democrat, they would say that Daschel did the right thing!
Edited to Add:
Ever since the Attacks that happened on September 11.2001 there has been a huge surge of people listening more and more to talk radio here in America, this is a market that the republicans have been very successful in grasping control over. You have people like Rush Limbaugh,Laura Ingram,Micheal Savage,Rusty Humphrey, Bill O'reily,and here in orgeon a guy by the name of Lars Larson, that in these talk shows they really dont pull very many punches in the sense of speaking out against both parties, some do it more agressively then others, so what this does is make the american people more informed about issues that are going on not just in our nations capital, but also across the world and in state and local governments. The democrats hate this, because people are starting to wake up to the failures of the democratic party! The democrats have tried to enter into the talk radio market,and they have not been very successful, mainly because people can actually see through there emotional dribble, and that there arguements have very little,if not any of a solid foundation. Months ago the democrats were whinning that talk radio was biased and that it was not fair, so they tried to find ways to stop all the talk radio shows from speaking the truths about things going on in america, well they were not very successful, and that has really pissed off the democrats!