[Dems_R_Losers]

Anyone who holds the President blameless tonight is delusional. He is every bit as responsible for this massacre as Bill Clinton was in 1994. Somebody on National Review said it best -- the real wake-up call was in 2004, and Bush did not wake up. The voters game him two years to fix Iraq and he didn't. They decided he is a liar and that the Republicans in Congress were just a rubber stamp for him. It's hard to argue with them. They have spoken all across the country, just as they did in 1994.

I'm old enough to have started in politics when you could have Republican meetings in a phone booth. We are still light years ahead of where we were in 1974. This is a setback for the party, but just like the stock market, every party in power needs a correction once in a while. This is ours. The Republic will survive. And if we know one thing, we know Democrats will overreach and will pay the price for it.

[Sam Cree]

Well the President is the skipper of the ship, so technically he's got to bear some blame. But IMO this wouldn't have happened had it not been for the ceaseless efforts of the MSM. In a sense, they have been the enemy ship.

[nopardons]

You want to blame someone? Okay, go find the nearest mirror and look into it!

Tonight's losses are low, by historic measures. Go look at Reagan's loss numbers in both Houses, in his sixth year.

[RichInOC]

I voted Republican straight down the line. I have a clean conscience, and I'll be able to hold my head high, no matter how bad it gets, because I know I did the right thing tonight. I wonder how many folks who didn't vote Republican (and I don't mean just here, but generally) are going to be able to say the same.

[FreedomCalls]

The best hope in stopping the Bush amnesty was a Republican victory in the House in 2006, but the Bushbots sunk it for us all and now with the Democrats running the show you are going to see an amnesty bill forwarded and Bush will sign it with a smile as a “great example of bipartisan leadership”.

Look for the ban on assault weapons to be reintroduced as well. Bush said he will sign that one if it reaches his desk and Tom Delay and the House Republicans committee members were the only ones keeping it off the agenda. Now they're gone.

[alnick]

It's the media, stupid.

[LisaMalia]

BALDWIN:

Reading your home page on here tells me alot about you, and this thread you posted.

I am a proud, as you call it, "Bushbot".

I love and respect my President, and thank him for his all he has done to protect me, and my loved ones, from harm on our soil.

Perhaps you feel safe, in Alaska, but when we let our guard down, even you and yours may not be, as tonight is arguably a victory for the terrorists .

God help us all.

[RobbyS]

How well the Democrats do depends on how much they are able to restrain themselves, and also the terrorists. Both need to lie low until after the election of 2008 in hopes that the electorate will be lulled to sleep. The counttry is still divided, because many races were decided by small majorites. I doubt that the country will tolerate the defunding of the war. That would put the troops at risk and would be a slap in the face of the troops more than that of the Administration. It is a dangerous world, and if the terroists do not restrain themelves, it will become evident that work remains to be done.

[zbigreddogz]

Oh please! You could have slept before writing an unthinking hysterical rant like this.

But anyhow, seeming as how you want answers, we have two people to thank for this election, neither named Bush. Their names are Ney and Foley.

[restornu]

So Your a I told you so kind of guy?

I got a better Idea stop whinning and start building for next two years!

this might be a blessing because maybe the slow learners might wake up for 2008!

With the lefty at the helm and a few mishaps on our shores God forbid the rest of the dreamers will get real!

[Kev from Ohio]

Once the Dems elect Pelosi, Pres Bush and VP Cheney should step down. Pelosi would become President.

As he gets on Air Force 1 for the last time, give the American public one last slaute, the one finger salute.

His last address should be, I heard you, America has heard you, and soon you will hear from the terrorist. Good luck, the Republicans can defend for themselves.

[dr_who_2]

From the NR blog:

Bad Election Day for Appropriators [Kathryn Jean Lopez] An e-mail: By my count there were seven vulnerable GOP appropriators (Sweeney (NY), Northrup (KY), Taylor (NC), Sherwood (PA), Walsh (NY), Kirk (IL), and Doolittle (CA)). As it stands now, it appears that four of those appropriators (Sweeney, Northrup, Taylor, and Sherwood) have lost. Taylor was even a "cardinal" as chairman of the Interior appropriators subcommittee. And the only reason that the three other vulnerable GOP appropriators are still standing is that the results aren't in yet. In the Senate, of the two vulnerable GOP appropriators (DeWine (OH) and Burns (MT)), DeWine has already lost. So much for the theory that pork delivers victory.

[dr_who_2]

...whenever conservatives brought up the obvious problems with Bush from illegal immigration, to port deals, to his globalist friends and massive spending?

Part of the problem there is that you lump all of us together. Some of the above I was pissed off about, the reaction to the rest of it by certain "conservatives" tended to piss me off. Conservatism isn't a checklist of beliefs that people have to subscribe to be members of the club. There should be this thing in the conservative camp every now and then called a "debate".

[DakotaRed]

et tu, brute?

A major difference between Democrats and Republicans. Dems circle the wagons around their people. Republican eat their own.

[TomasUSMC]

A few weeks ago when Bush sat down for some Ramadan chow FOR THE SIXTH STRAIGHT STINKING YEAR, with moslems while we were losing 100 men in one month... THAT was it.

People realized that Kinder Gentler Compassionate KGC warfighting was indeed going to last many many years because our own President continued to insist that islam was a religion that deserved to be honored...

"...we welcome and honor the Muslim faith in our nation. Our society is enriched by our Muslim citizens."

Thats when the bullshiite meter pegged and the American people decided enough was enough.

[TomasUSMC]

Good article.

[El Gato]

But the economy won’t be great after the terrorist hit us again. In fact, when it happens, don’t be surprised how fast you are going to lose your job.

I work in the Defense Industry. Have my whole career since Grad school which was after my active duty time (after which I was a Reservist, then a Guardsman, and then a Reservist again). I'll be losing my job, (again BTW, I also got Clintonsized in '98) well before the next attack, unless it comes sooner than I anticipate.

Just yesterday now (7th) we had a briefing by the Commanding General of the command I support. Before all this, they were to lose 5% of their civilian slots, and 10% of their direct support contractor slots. Plus a good sized cut in developement contracts. They'd already lost more military slots than that over the last year or two.

I shudder for the future, both mine and my country's.

[rrrod]

My guess is a few hours LOL.

[cynwoody]

Sixth Year Jinx

		Senate			House
Year	President	Δ Dem	Δ GOP	Δ WH	Δ Dem	Δ GOP	Δ WH
1998	Clinton	0	0	0	5	-5	-5
1986	Reagan	8	-8	-8	5	-5	-5
1974	Ford	5	-5	-5	49	-48	-48
1966	Johnson	-4	4	-4	-47	47	-47
1958	Eisenhower	15	-13	-13	49	-48	-48
1950	Truman	-6	5	-6	-29	28	-29
1938	Roosevelt	-6	6	-6	-71	80	-71
1926	Coolidge	7	-6	-6	12	-10	-10
1918	Wilson	-6	6	-6	-19	21	-19
Mean				-6			-31

[A CA Guy]

Well I think you are completely wrong.
Bush has been good on the war and the economy.

What could not be overcome his both history and the 24-7 slamming of the war and this Administration by the press.

Do you think Democrats could have in any way gotten more than 40% of the vote this election without the press acting as an arm of the terrorists and Democrats in opposing the Administration the last two years?

Then historically, in a 6th year like this, the other party usually picks up 45 seats in the house and some in the Senate.
By historic averages, the Democrats did poorly.

Had they not had a press giving a billion in good press to them and over a couple of billion on free bad press to the Republicans and Bush, there would probably have been gains for Republicans in both the Senate and Congress.

Sabotaging of the war effort by Democrats and the press along with other negative press efforts on the Administration is what came into play here IMO.