It is now clear that the capture of Saddam struck a major body blow at the

Democratic Party. Tina Brown tells the tale here (though with a nasty twist at the end). Capturing Osama bin Laden, always

very desirable, is now also an electoral imperative. If _he_ were to show

up on our TV screens around the middle of next year with a US Army medic

shining a flashlight down his throat, the Democrats would be polling in

single digits.