An extraordinary set of coincidences

Some very interesting events have been happening in the course of the 2006 elections. Consider the following:

• Six weeks before the elections, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez deliver heavily publicized anti-Bush speechs at the United Nations. Aside from the God-talk, these speeches are largely indistinguishable from the Democratic Party's day-by-day anti-Bush rhetoric.
• North Korea detonates its first nuclear weapon a month before the elections; this event is immediately exploited by Democrats as proof that Bush's North Korea policy has failed.
• It's now three weeks away from the elections and Saddham Hussein is confident that "the hour of liberation is at hand" for Iraq. It goes without saying which American political party is more than eager to end the occupation of Iraq.

Call it coincidence if you wish, but it certainly seems like the World's Dictators Club is expecting good things to result from Democrats retaking Congress this year.