I don't wanna be such a downer right now, but here goes:

Even though we are little more than two months removed from Election Day, I feel like the GOP will somehow pull it off yet again. I'm worried about our Senate chances in PA, MD, NJ, MN, MO and WA as polls in all of these states show tightening races (I'm especially worried about the first three, because Casey is fumbling, Menendez is having problems, and Mfume may end up being the nominee and force us to divert money away from other races to help him).

At the same time, I have this over-riding sense of negativity, pulsating through me with fear that the GOP will win again because they are just better than us when it comes to campaigning. If elections were held on random dates, we would win every time. But the way in which the election cycle is set up, it allows for months of dirty tricks and lies. It's an indescribable feeling of dread. One that is abstract. In my mind right now, something keeps telling me "we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose!" I had this same dread at this point in 2002 and 2004, and up until this weekend when I saw Casey debate Santorum, and I read some polls for the other Senate races, I was pretty optimistic.

I know that this thread may be considered heresey, and perhaps inflammatory, but I'm genuinely worried, and like a scared kid rushing into his parents bedroom in the middle of the night because he had a nightmare, I want someone to assure me "it'll be okay" and that we won't have to deal with yet two more years of unchecked and unfettered conservative destruction in this country.

Here's what I've come up with:

Letting Bin Laden away at Tora Bora

Drug cartels and warlords are in charge in Afghanistan

Failing to look at the Hart-Rudmann Report

Iraq has become a magnet for Al Qaida recruitment and distracted us from the broader War on Terrorism

And let's not forget that Bush cut funding for explosives detection at airports:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/1...

And neither should we forget the Dubai Ports World deal

Bush dragged his feet on the USS Cole investigation

Bush also flip flopped on creating the 9/11 Commission, tried to prevent Condi from testifying, and did not testify under oath

Able Danger - Remember the bureaucratic bullshit and stifling of the unit's job

Remember how tried to cut counter-terrorism funding both pre-9/11 AND post-9/11:
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.as...
http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-new.cf...

And let's not forget the less than steller grades that the 9/11 Commission gave the Bush Administration:
http://www.9-11pdp.org/press/2005-12-05_su...

...Or how Homeland Security cut funding for NYC and DC, while at the same time gave money to a freakin' PETTING ZOO?
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/us-te...