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I hate to say this, but Dick Morris is dead on:

The Democrats, for their part, will use their new House majority to plague the administration with investigations. While the left would be appeased by investigations into why we invaded Iraq in the first place, it is financial scandals that will do the greatest damage to Bush and the Republicans.

Democratic committee chairmen will examine Halliburton contracts in Iraq, royalty deals for offshore oil drilling, defense procurement scandals, and resource leases in national forests and wilderness areas. They will examine the nexus between campaign contributions and favors from the trough of the executive branch.

Immunized from congressional scrutiny by a compliant Congress, the administration has been getting away with pork politics of the worst sort and the Democrats will find sufficient fodder for years of hearings and investigations.

The last two years of the Bush administration will most closely resemble the Clinton years, where scandal after scandal after scandal battered the president’s image and ratings. But, unlike the GOP assault on Clinton, the Democrats will stay on financial issues rather than stray into the personal. The results will be devastating for the Republicans and their prospects in 2008.

I'm sure there are plenty of party activists out there who want to pursue a politics of revenge, but to do so would be both counter-productive and wrong. There are so many legitimate scandals to pursue - war profiteering being the first among many - that we have no need to get personal.

Show the American people how corrupt these people are. Show them how they have mismanaged the country's finances. Show them how that has hurt both the economy and the war. Stick to the issues that matter, to the ones the American people are most interested in, and we will bury the conservative movement for a generation.