Because Newsweak understands neither conservatives and/or Jesus's people, they are really shooting blind in this one. We'll see on Nov. 8 how badly they missed.
So far have they gone down the road of counting their chickens, they also checked these Dem action items with their "pollgasm" audience:
.....“First 100 Hours” agenda. An overwhelming majority says allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies should be a top priority for a Democratic Congress (74 percent, including 70 percent of Republicans); 68 percent want increasing the minimum wage to be a top priority, including 53 percent of Republicans; 62 percent want investigating impropriety by members of Congress to be a top priority; and 58 percent want investigating government contracts in Iraq to be a top priority. Fifty-two percent say investigating why we went to war in Iraq should be a top priority (25 percent say it should a lower priority and 19 percent say it shouldn’t be done.)
This pretty much tells you the MSM/'Rat agenda for January. Right behind this item was impeaching Bush, although on that and lower-ranked items, the "back-burner"/"NO" consensus for non-immediacy went up pretty fast. But it's revealing that those action items were included in the poll, in a list of likely early-action proposals to the "pollgazzed" public.
Running up taxes (disguised as "rolling back" Bush's tax-cuts) was the least popular 'Rat idea. Which is also significant in its unpopularity.
To sum up, they want:
......with "Impeach Bush" and "Raise taxes" bringing up the rear, but only because the Deaniacs couldn't sell 'em, even to their own "pollgasm" base.