Get Lawyers!

There's a little nugget of information in Mike Allen's Time article that suggests that the GOP brass' talk of holding the House and Senate in November may just be bravado:

As for Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue.

Oddly, the story is one that tries to be upbeat about Bush and his "leadership moment" (gag me) in the Middle East. But just the fact that they're lawyering up suggests that they know what may be coming down the pike.

... and, if you're looking at a Democratic majority in November, and your first instinct is not to reach out for bipartisan comity, or strengthen support among Democratic moderates, but to find as many lawyers as humanly possible, you're guilty as sin.