Can you imagine the smile on my face when I read this?

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid raised a few eyebrows yesterday on the Senate floor when he said it would take a "miracle" for Democrats to win enough races next year to take back the Senate.

"I would like to think a miracle would happen and we would pick up five seats this time," he said during a floor debate over the filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees. "I guess miracles never cease."

Republicans were delighted by what they called an "admission" from the highest-ranking elected Democrat in the country

The fact that Reid can admit this indicates to me that his party realizes they are in trouble. This also explains why they care so much about judicial filibusters... they want to preserve their obstructionist tactics because the know they will be spending a long time in the minority.

The irony of this is that its their obstructionism that is going to keep them in the minority... and probably lose seats in 2006.