If you care to look the Republicans got a lot of good legislation passed the past couple years. Or do you think the bills Bush signed he just pulled out of his butt? The GOP Congress wasn't near as conservative as it should have been, but it was a h**l of a lot more conservative than anything that will come from this Democrat Congress. That's the thing that short sighted cut and run conservatives don't seem to comprehend. They haven't taught the GOP a lesson. They've just made America suffer under at LEAST two years of House and Senate Democrat leader ship. Oooooo bravo. Way to show the GOP. Remember that when your taxes are higher, your money goes to fun unresrticted embryonic and fetal stem cell research and human cloning, the military is slowly starved of funds, and Stevens is replaced with a Kennedy type of gutless wonder, instead of yet another solid conservative Justice like Scalia which we would have gotten from that "weak" GOP Senate.
Listen, I voted straight republican but not for Perry in TX. The GOP did not respond to the conservative nation. The dems kept Pelosi and Reid in a closet for three wks before the election. The democriatic party used to have values in common with most americans, and it was their social issues where we differed. When they went off the deep end and supported all those special interest factions which were out to erase our traditional values...they blew it. They see it now. When the congressional GOP failed us...they really did need to be jerked up short. They either stand for us or they don't. If they don't, they need to be booted. Lets see how the next two years play out. The dems will either respond to the preferences of a nation or special interest groups. They too can hang themselves. I would rather have them (dems)hang themselves in the next 2 years then see them take it all in 2008. The GOP needs to keep its nose clean.