I wish I believed that whole we won't bug out of Iraq or raise taxes part.
The moonbats are going to SCREAM to get out of Iraq. As for the taxes, we have chance on that since they don't expire for a few more years.
This is the measure of a wrestler, exhausted in the last two minutes and starting down.
By standing in vague but passionate opposition to the president's handling of the war, they formed a new voting alliance - an alliance between doves, who think Iraq was a mistake to begin with, and one-time hawks who think Iraq was a perfectly fine thing to do in the first place, but that it's a huge mess now and Bush should pay.
Going for that anti-Iraq alliance without offering an escape plan of their own was a brilliant political tactic.
I know several of those "one-time hawks" - GOP - who think Iraq is a big mess and were not enthused at all to vote for GOP candidates. Not voting or voting for Democrats was the way many former Bush supporters meted out their disappointment in the way things are going in Iraq (or at least in the way the MSM portrays how things are going in Iraq).
It will now be two years of Democratic investigations, stonewalling Bush's policies, stonewalling winning in iraq, implementation of bad policies to make Bush look bad because, ...
... now the Dems will focus on the White House in 2008.
Everything they do will be in an effort to win the Presidency in 2008.
The same thing could have been said about Clinton in '94. It didn't happen then because, whatever his many flaws, Clinton was a skillful political player and used his opponents' mistakes against them. I guess we'll see if Bush is also skillful this way. I'm cautiously pessimistic.
This is a victory for the terrorists. Prepare for more terrorist attacks in the U.S.
However, maybe I'm wrong. After all I felt that the Republicans in the House were doing their jobs much better than those in the Senate that couldn't even gather votes to get Bolton an up pr down confirmation vote.
I would have been much happier if voters would have supported the work the House had tried to do but was stopped by the Senate.
Here in Ohio I'm disgusted to see that Brown will be our new Senator, but I can't say I'm sorry to see DeWine will be leaving office.
He hasn't been doing anything else, anyway, so what will change? ;)
Sorry John, but I think that you're completely wrong here. Remember who RUNS the democratic party. Remember who holds the pursestrings. Remember who's in the leadership positions. Those newly elected members of congress, most of whom were elected BECAUSE they ran as "moderates" or even "conservatives" will find that if they want to have an office bigger than a coffin, or be assigned to any committees, they're going to have to go along with the hard leftists on pretty much every issue.
Mark
Interesting. The Democrats are celebrating a victory and the MSM is saying the Democrats didn't win. Bush lost.
Kinda makes the whole "Democrat agenda" thing look like a booger.
I wish people would stop using the phrase Lame Duck. The President can still do everything he could do yesterday. He just has less time to do it.
I blame GWB and Karl Rove for this mess. With this shamnesty that proved the GOP is just as weak as the Dems.
It's the fault of the GOP in general, not President Bush's fault in particular.
I'd just like to say at this point that, with very few honorable exceptions ('sup, Mr. Steyn?) I think the conservative commentariat has been largely feckless over the last year. So frankly, I think their first priority after the election is to go get fecked.
Bullsh!t. Any one of these freshman so-called "moderate Dims" who doesn't strictly follow the extreme-left party line as laid out by Pelosi and her minions will have a very unpleasant single term in the House. That fact will be made crystal-clear to them in the coming days and weeks by the Dim leadership.
This is bullcrap - the dems who took the senate had better vote for the conservative judges or they will be shown as liars and not supporting the policies they were elected on. Most of the general public is too stupid to realize who is pulling the striings but that is the way it is.