Karl Rove is right in this op-ed (and this one too). I’m a little mystified that McCain hasn’t done more Congress-bashing. McCain has a chance to win this fall, after all, only because Democrats took Congress in 2006. Imagine what this race would look like with gas prices as high as they are and Republicans in charge of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Not that it’s relevant to how McCain should run, but I’d actually go further than that: Iraq would look much worse if the Republicans had narrowly held control. Congressional Democrats, with no responsibility, would have fought harder to cut off funds for the war and to stop the surge. Congressional Republicans, having barely survived, would have been more nervous about supporting the surge.

From a conservative perspective, I think, the Democrats’ taking Congress has done little damage to the country–what have they accomplished?–and done some real though inadvertent good.