Excesses

Digby thinks the line "We're just trying to keep the Republicans from going too far!" is a good one for the Dems in Congress to use.

"Yes, it was always the excesses that we wished to oppose, rather than the whole program, the whole spirit that produced the first steps, A, B, C, and D, out of which the excesses were bound to come. it is so much easier to 'oppose the excesses,' about which one can, of course, do nothing, than it is to oppose the whole spirit, about which one can do something every day." So quoth Milton Mayer. See my New Year's Resolutions for more Mayer

In any case, the country has already gone through A, B, C, D, and excesses, so it's a bit late to be claiming to try to prevent the Republicans from going too far.