Claiming credit in retrospect for things you opposed at the time is a new high in chutzpah, or, if not that, in delusion.

Election Shock Treatment
Noemie Emery, The Weekly Standard Original Article

WITH THINGS LOOKING UP for a change, this has been a rough patch of time for the Democrats. They have been suffering from Election Shock Treatment; which means the success of the Iraqi elections has shocked them into the realization that they may have to seek treatment, because of the trauma induced by the growing suspicion that President Bush has been right all along