Here’s another Dan Walters column on Pelosi and Bush:
The danger that looms for Bush over the next two years, as he readies his re-election campaign, is that with control of the White House and both houses of Congress, he and other Republicans will be held accountable for everything. And if events turn sour — if the economy crashes, the confrontation with Iraq goes badly or Republicans simply overreach — they will have no one to blame but themselves. And Pelosi and the Democrats will be certain to drive home the point.
By the same token, with Democrats in equally strong control of the California state government, thanks to last week’s election, they, too, will be held accountable for all matters negative in the state. And Republicans will gleefully point to Sacramento as an example of what could happen if Pelosi and the Democrats recapture Washington.
As strange as it may seem, Dems are seriously kicking Davis around as a potential challenger to Bush in ’04. It’s not as strange as it may seem, given that the upcoming race, as it now stands, is a job for a sacrificial lamb. Having chosen one such animal from California – Pelosi – why not another one in the form of Davis?