Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leaders of the Democratically controlled Congress, are inept, out of touch with the American public and should be replaced. In every confrontation with the Bush administration, the two backed down, giving the worst president in U.S. history everything he demanded. Reid and Pelosi are either not worthy of leadership, or are in cahoots with the Crawford Cowboy. Our money is on the latter.

Why else would Pelosi take impeachment "off the table" despite mounting evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors? What's her payoff?

Pelosi claims she didn't foresee congressional Republicans sticking by Bush like they did. What else do robots do?

What Ms. Pelosi did not know, as she beamed at her fellow Democrats cheering their return to power, was that the glum Republicans witnessing the tableau would remain persistently unified against her and her ambitious new majority in the legislative year ahead.

Defying expectations and surprising even themselves, Republicans were able to slow and sometimes halt Democratic momentum by refusing to break with President Bush and his war strategy, no matter how unpopular, and by resisting social initiatives, no matter how appealing.

“What is interesting to me is how the Republicans have stuck with the president,” said Ms. Pelosi, of California, looking back on her history-making first year capped by the president signing an energy bill that she declared as a top priority from the start. “I didn’t foresee that.”

Republicans say their unity was inspired by what they saw as Democratic overreaching on policy, bolstered by a fundamental belief that a Congressionally forced withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous, and stiffened by attacks on vulnerable members from outside advocacy groups.