I am glad the Dems don't have a super majority in either house and can't override Bush's coming vetoes. Instead they will be forced to focus on investigations, and I look forward with relish to Bush stonewalling on subpoenas and the resultant piecemeal revelations of all the lies and fraud they have fed to the public for six years. No doubt at first the true blue GOPpers will rant and rave about Democrat conspiracies, but as the pieces leak one by one, more and more people will have their eyes opened and be more and more offended, and maybe put the kibosh on neocons for a generation. Of course Bush and Cheney and Rove haven't learned a damn thing from Watergate or even Clinton's more recent troubles; the lesson that it is better to admit everything all at once to take the wind out of your opponents' sails will be especially too much crow to eat, and their stonewalling will last well into the 2008 election campaign.

To borrow another Bush phrase, Bring it on!

The repubs may have lost. But i can assure you

that jesus christ is a republican and will return.

Good article.

But read what Bob Novak wrote. If not for the fooling around with the districts in 2000, the Dems would have had a "historic sweep."

This needs to be fixed, as not all future rotten presidents such as W. will have his same arrogance and pride that lead to such a fall.

This issue has to be the PRIORITY!

I vote as an independent and have cast ballots all over the board. Americans are able to swallow the bully stuff as long as real work gets done. The only real work done in the last decade has been the lying by those in power, Democrat and Republicans.

I hope our new leadership takes into account that the American people are far less willing to be lied to from the 2006 line in the sand. America is waking up! We should continue to kick out all lying politicians until we arrive at a state of the union that is about the American people. We'd never again see America invading and creating chaos for reasons we were duped into believing.

I hope our new leaders are far smarter than their mentors of the past. It isn't a party issue. It is general sickness within the political arena.

Let's not forget to savor the much-deserved demise of Conrad Burns, as well as Tom Kean Jr., who defined new levels of unctiousness.

And of course Majority Leader Delay, who left one step ahead of the constable.

People want to believe the pious, close-coiffed smiling conservatives who will, daddy-like, take care of that monster in the closet or drip in the basement. They want that. They will accept that daddy yells once in a while and maybe keeps mommy in the kitchen all the time. They'll accept anything so long as they can believe the illusion that daddy cares for them, specifically, by name.

But the analogy gets turned on its head when daddy keeps claiming the dog ate his homework. People, as a group, can act dumb, but their hearts get it.

Forget that at your peril, Mr and Mrs Republican. And next time? Don't just stand by with your hands in your pockets and watch the bullies take over everything. Shame on you. Shame shame shame and I hope, desperately, that you're all set out with the trash that you are - not for thinking wrong thoughts, but for letting this happen for so long and taking us so close to tossing out the experiment that is America, destroying it like so many unwanted embryos (You know, the kind of life you say it's ok to waste, as long as we don't use it for science).

Shame for your hypocracy. Shame for not standing up and saying that you knew this was wrong. Shame for winning for power's sake. Shame for using the power to gain more, and shame for being too giddy with it to bother to govern.

We are not to be ruled. That's the grand experiment. We are to govern ourselves, and if you people on the right - yes, you know who you are - think your style of "governing" represent America, then, yes, the dog SHOULD eat your homework because you belong in HIS house.

the other headline I could have used is"bagdad bobs get a reality check"

I had started to listen to all white house major players as if I were listening to Bagdad Bob. Whatever they say it is the opposite. In the face of all reality (so these people don't watch news or read legitimate newspapers) I came to understand their only reality was a distortion to the rest of us who are plugged in to the Real Reality.

Last Wednesday morning was the happiest day of my life since sometime in late 2000

The 21st century brand of conservatism really isn't even political anymore. It's just organized belligerence.

It's entertaining watching the castrated bullies. The prospect of the Bolton appointment being rejected has them beside themselves. You mean King George is not going to get something he wants? Where's the rubber stamp for Christ's sake? What the hell is this? Al-Qaeda is happy. Good Lord, we're all dead.

By the way, a previous response mentioned Baghdad Bob. Someone needs to go back and review some of his statements as our invasion of Iraq commenced. We got much more truth out of Bob than we got from George, Dick, and Donald. I recall Baghdad Bob saying that the occupiers will be bled day by day, drop by drop---and that the invader will get in and will not be able to get out.

Please be aware that ADM. Vern Clark is a graduate of Evangel College (now Evangel University), Springfield, Missouri, world headquarters for Assembly of God. Another interesting fact: John Ashcroft (former US Attorney General) followed his father as President of Evangel University. Springfield, Missouri is also home of Representative Roy Blunt; former president of Southwest Missouri Baptist University (Bolivar, Missouri) and Reverend Jerry Farwell is a graduate of Baptist Bible College, Springfield, Missouri. Yes, it does appear that the far, far right breeds their conservatisms in Springfield, Missouri. Meanwhile, look at the votes cast against in Stem Cell Research in Southwest Missouri as the preachers directed from their pulpits their message of prolife….