MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/opinion/13ponnuru.html?pagewanted=print

A senior editor of The New Republic posits that “the Republicans can afford to give up the House” because, among other things, it will actually make them stronger going into the 2008 elections – especially if the Democrats overplay their newfound majority, since “Powerlessness has stoked Democrat’s rage. If the party wins the House, its left-leaning ‘net-roots’ may grow more enraged still, because the Democrats would then have the illusion of power without its reality.”