Silver Lining for November Loss (Updated)

The TPM bring up a silver lining if the GOP keeps the Senate: McCain is in line to be the head of Armed Services, which means that we may get a serious investigation into the conduct of the war.

2008 Postscript: Well wasn't that quaint. We learn a few lessons from this:

1. A steady refrain of my backposts has been and will continue to be how much despair I was in back in 2006 based on the previous 6 years of totalistic thuggery from Bush & Co.
   
2. The knowledge that were it not for the slim victories we Democrats had against the Rove-engineered elections of '06 (cf. the Attorney Scandal to understand that there's more than one way to rig an election), the Senate would still be in the GOP's hands. True, because of the current deadlock, it's not as useful as it could be, nonetheless, we need to thank God for the fact that the GOP is not in control.
   
3. Especially in light of yesterday's testimony of Petraeus and Crocker in front of the self-same Armed Services committee and the slavish toadying of McCain to the delusions that the war in Iraq is going swell, we can see that the 'silver lining' of '06 would have been just another disappointment.
   
4. Then again, McCain's toadying is a world better than the Bush Crew's thuggery, so it would have been even more refreshing had we lost the midterms. Eh.

Backpost finished 4/10/08. Had the title, the link, and the basic sentence.