If Republicans hang on to bare majorities in the House and Senate next week, just how crazed will people on the liberal left be? Will they rise to ever more florid expressions of rage, which does not seem achievable? Or will they follow the Republican example after the 1998 election — in which Democrats improved their position despite or perhaps because of Monica — and acknowledge that the president for whom they have unparalleled contempt is some kind of political genius? Or will they do both?