Whose “disaster” is it?

According to the Associated Press, Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole, in what sounds like an almost hysterical fund-raising letter, asks for immediate financial help ''to prevent the most left-wing Democrat Party in history from seizing control of the United States Senate'' in the November elections. She goes on to talk about the possibility that the Democrats might ''increase your taxes, call for endless investigations, congressional censure and maybe even impeachment of President Bush, put the war on terrorism on the back-burner'' and even ''Take over the White House in 2008!'' In the letter, said the AP, she assured the recipients that she was working around the clock ''to help our country avoid this disaster.''

I guess this is as opposed to the “disaster” --- an unjustified war in Iraq, a federal deficit that is out of control, gasoline prices that are at record levels, illegal spying on American citizens, rampant incompetence in federal administrators, lobbyists virtually running the U.S. Congress, huge tax breaks for the super rich and large corporations, and finally, the federal non-response to the Katrina disaster --- that the most right-wing Republican Party in history has wreaked on us for the last ten or so years.