It's Saturday Night
Did some Democrats feel there was an alternative to resist Bush's measures and still survive to lead a return to democracy from demagoguery? The Democrats were in survival mode from an American Public in panic after September 11th and the Anthrax attacks.
In an environment of war and fear where Republicans held majorities and stood fast in one opinion there was no successful resistance except with Senators and House members who were entrenched with their constitutents back home and would survive any out spoken statement against Bush/Cheney and the Neocons.
The Power of Concesus is a reality the American Public has yet to master while it places their very Constitution between a Rock and a Hard Place, yet alone a political party of Democrats.
