Will the neocons regret their wins later on?

Right now I'm just plain lazy and reposting rants and shit from other boards/forums. This one I posted on Slate's The Fray, Ballot Box. Which is like a fucking biker bar of a forum. You want to throw down some piss and vinigar, viniger, vinegar, you want to throw some shit down, head on over there.

Doesn't the whole premise of the neocon agenda seem to balance on the fact that they will stay in power indefinatly?

If Bush, from reading a number of recent articles on the subject, looks to Roberts as someone that will bring power back to the president, won't that kind of play against them later when they lose the precidency? Doesn't their mechinations all depend on them staying in the majority pretty much forever?

I would think there would be some planning, some back door put in place, to counter that eventual reality. I mean, no one party holds the reigns forever, especialy in the White House, so don't they play against themselves by strenghtening the one prospective avenue the Democrats have to challange them in the immidiate future?

Or would Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and whomever Bush appoints next be so blatant as to tailor their rulings to match the party in office; strengthening one side while in office, weaking the other when not?

Is it simple hubris? Man's inherent arrogance? Or are they just stupid?

I'll go with hubris. They're so arrogant in their percieved righteousness that they can't perceive ever being out of power again.

And I say 'immediate future' because I'm not convinced the Democrats are doing enough on the ground localy to change the Congressional makeup enough to shift the actual balance of power. However, Dean, contrary to Republican blather, is doing great things on the ground. That's he's coordinating the effort and occasionaly says something stupid doesn't matter. His job is ti fire up the faithfull, who are the one's out actualy hitting the pavement, and that's what he's doing.

But, having said that, I live by the old axiom that "all politics is local", and that's why the GOP are in the majority; they played a better ground game for the last ten years. However, the same emotional forces that pushed the evangelicals out of their stupor and divided the nation on moralistic lines is starting to shift focus. More and more the outrage is going agasint the grain for the right.

Anyway, despite the why, I find it highly entertaining watching them limit themselves in the future. Do the Republicans somehow think that if they lose the majority, that the Democrats are going to graciously give them back the minority power they so uncerimoniously took away while they were the majority?

Get a fucking clue, heh. When Newt so piously chimed "Now it's our turn!" upon the completion of his rebelion, but before his party ostracized him and cast him out like the hindersome true conservative he was, he had no idea the true consequences of his revolution or he might have scuttled the movement himself.

With us or against us, everything has changed, bring it on.