Seems voters learned nothing from the clinton years.
The voters in 2006 gave us a democrat congress, I suppose that is what the majority wanted.
Lets just blame President Bush instead of the voters.
Maybe, Obama or Hillary will make it all better./s
I wish I could put my finger on what it is that makes Americans despise themselves so much.
A longstanding claim of the GOP has been that their people are more conventional, more moral than the Dems.
Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel got together and attacked Republican pork-barrelers and peculators in order to impeach this GOP advantage with the voters.
Pelosi and her MSM allies went after the Pubbies on the corruption stuff, and a gay former staffer for Fritz Hollings outed Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., as a gay ephebophile predator. This really turned off a lot of Reagan Democrats and independent voters.
Simultaneously, Rahm Emanuel -- and I'm still waiting for the outrage on the Left and in the MSM at his congressional kingmaking role in hand-picking candidates -- put together a broad slate of "Blue Dog" conservative Democrats who had no voting records to live down (no lockstep votes in Congress to give the lie to their "I'm really sorta conservative" shtick), and ran them at the indies and Reagan Democrats.
The indies and conservative ethnic Dems bit on Emanuel's bait, and the rest is history.
NOBODY VOTED FOR JACK MURTHA TO LEAD A BUGOUT/DEFEAT IN IRAQ.
NOBODY VOTED FOR GUN CONTROL, TAX INCREASES, OR GAY MARRIAGE.
It's just that the MSM keep saying they did. Vote for "clean government", get Degenerate Stalinism Lite.
Rahm Emanuel baited, and Nancy Pelosi switched. Capiche?