Democrats Beginning to Rationalize: Losing Senate Wont be as Bad as Some Fear?

White House officials wonder privately ... a Republican Congress would be better? By Charlie Cook While I have never seen anyone literally thrown under a bus I would imagine it is quite a grisly sight. This weeks crunching sound you heard was the bones of Senate Democrats under a bus as The Washington Posts inimitable Dana Milbanks July 4th column suggested that perhaps the Obama presidency might benefit from Democrats losing their Senate majority.    In politics we occasionally see someone throw an individual or a group on their own team under one. That is not a pretty sight either. Early this year we saw Senate Democrats throw their House brethren under the proverbial bus with a Jan. 29 story in Politico headlined Democrats: Cede the House to Save the Senate." It noted that Democrats hold on their majority in the upper chamber was tenuous while over on the House side the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was raising money hand over fist despite having little chance of reclaiming the majority House Democrats lost in 2010. It didnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that Senate Democrats were trying to redirect fundraising from what they saw as a lost cause on one side of the Capitol to what they saw as a much more important one on their side. On one level it was pretty obvious that the odds were exceedingly long for House Democrats and more like 50-50 give or take 10 points on the Senate side. But  these kinds of stories are usually played out in the weeks or final months before an election not in the first month of the election year. To me it was both understandable and unseemly and certainly not very subtle. I could only wonder just how angry House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was with the story particularly given that I had heard her deliver a very spirited defense of Democrats House chances just a few weeks earlier. But as the old saying goes Politics aint beanbag."