Payback Time: Who the Democrats Will Target

Time to conduct a thorough and truly independent investigation of 9/11.

I hope the Dems understand that this country is sick and tired of the partisanship in DC and want somethings to get done. I voted Democratic to send a message to Bush & Co about Iraq and the right wing nuts controlling domestic politics. Don’t make me regret my vote.
If impeachment and investigations are all that we can expect from this leadership team, then Democrats can expect to lose in 2 years. Americans want results.

It causes me concern that Nancy Pelosi has stated that Halliburton, CIA, and tobacco companies are early targets for them. They need to get on with real business. Voters wanted change. Not adults acting like children.

This country is about to go to hell in handbasket.

Now we can move on to the next election and evict the rest of the Republican team from the White House…..it’s time for reasonable changes,time to get out of the Iraq civil war, time to focus on American issues — the economy and immigration….

Congrats! You ran a great Campaign Ross.

I would really hope that the Democrats do not waste this opportunity getting revenge on the Republican Party. I am elated that they have taken control of House, but if the next two years are all about attacking Republicans instead of solving this countries problems, I will gladly welcome the GOP back in 2008.

Oh boy…here come the nuts!

say your prayers! Let’s see where this democratic house takes us. Lots of animosity directed towards certain people and/or companies, but the country as a whole? The war? The possible amnesty for millions of illegals? The war on terrorism at a global level? The situation in Latin America with Chavez? That is, the leftism of both North and South America now that the democrats have taken over the house and possibly the senate?
What is their agenda? What is their position on many of the issues that directly affect the USA?
Moreover, President Bush seems disoriented at this moment. He seems to not know what is his next move in this chess game, now that the democrats have gained so many seats in the house and the war in Iraq is not developing into a victory for the USA.
The President too seems abandoned by those who were supposedly on his side.
Let’s all work together for a better America regardless of political parties and personal grievences.

so this is the “new direction?”

They will not be bipartisan. They will say anytime they are disagreed with that the republicans aren’t willing to work with them. Stand by for a recession and higher tax burdens. They socialists have arrived.

Okay, let’s not move forward and address the issues that need addressing. Let’s dwell in the past and do the “pay back” thing and waste time and taxpayers money. If the dems get the Senate we can look forward to the next two years as lame duck and nothing significant will be achieved and that’s sad. All the pettiness between the two parties will be in full force. It’s sad and it makes me sick!

Thank god, we will finally see some oversight that was non-existent under the gop.

It is sad that the reason the democrates want to come on board as our “leaders” is for “retribution”.
When will our leaders grow up and work together for the good of the country instead of their own personal agendas?! I understand there have been mistakes but let’s get our leaders to work together instead of trying to convict one another! I, for one am tired of a bunch of snot nosed brats “leading” our country! It’s time for them to grow up and work together for the common good, as it is supposed to be!

Maybe it’s a good thing that Democrats have a little power so they stop sabotaging everything that this country has been trying to accomplish for the last 6 years…nah, I think not.

My God, the inmates have taken over the asylum!!

YEH, YEH, YEH

get ready for bigger taxes. we’ll be paying more for those who refuse to work.

Well, well, well…it appears that some important issues needing serious investigation have been piling up. I might have to quit my job in 2007 and become a fulltime C-Span viewer. I am especially excited for John Conyers, a true patriot, who has sent dozens of letters to the President that remain unanswered.

More Liberal waste of our time and money. And down the slope we go….

Nice story. The Democrats haven’t even had control 24 hours and the big news story by ABC is “Payback”. These folks work for US: The American People. Why are they wasting our time and money pouring salt into the wound of the Repulican defeat. Get to work on the issues and stop all this attacking the other party stuff.

Fantastic, can’t wait for the Democrats to get to work and investigate all those terrible decisions by Bush. While that is going on I’m sure the terrorists will sit back and just wait and laugh at the commission studies, etc. Me, I think I’ll start looking for that small little place in the mountains AWAY from major cities. Watch out America, you are about to Change Direction??

Make no mistake, Democrats weren’t voted for, Republicans were voted against. And don’t believe the bi-partisan pep talk coming from Nancy Pelosi. As far as Democrats are concerned, the next two years are all about payback. Keep all this in mind while your taxes are going up, and you’re watching news of terror attacks on our country.

I think that the Dems due not care about stem cell reseach but do think more people will be holding to them by pushing for government sponsered program and they will vote Dem to get their pay.Also I think it is about time to unionize the Military and treat them like the Romans did to the Spartens. If you want me to put my life on the line you have to pay just as the police and fire fighter are.

Pelosi said last night we were going to have partnership, not bipartisanship? Or are the dem’s saving that for after the impeachment of Bush & Cheney? The Democratic Underground wants to impeach both so Pelosi can be the first woman President.

The Dems better just start pulling troops out of Iraq. Bush failed in his vision to bring democracy to the Mid East, its time for our boys and girls to stop paying for his mistake with their blood & lives.

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. THE SKY IS BLUE Again. HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.

YES! The House and SENATE are restored to the party of science and rational thinking! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but, in the end, I am very grateful for the incompetence of George Bush’s neo-theo-conservative administration! I almost can’t wait to hear which Republican talking points the pathetic sycophants on the Fox News/Talk Radio circuit are spewing to explain away the nationwide rejection of their minority party!

And none of them will dare touch the real reason for out of control health care costs, the tort industry. They are all phoney’s until they address this issue.

Time to move forward and address the burning issues: get a real plan in place to solve the mideast dilemma, more troops or negotiate a resolution; get real ethics reform in place by outlawing lobbyists, make politicians responsible to the people that elected them, not the corporations that fund them and throw the bums out that are robbing the American people; fix medicare, social security, address and fix the immigration issues.

I hope that William Jefferson is on their short list of people to investigate. Obviously the Republicans could not get that investigation underway… maybe the “we can do it better” Democrats can get it done. These little investigations will finally shed some light into the true corruption that sits on both sides of teh aisle.

The democrats will continue the well established republican policies of big government spending, national financial suicide, and continuing curtailement of our constitutional rights and freedoms. They will just select different “contractors” to do the job. It’s all the same mafia running the show. Nothing will change.

While I’m elated we won, if we spend the next two years doing politically motivated investigations, we’ll get demolished in 2 years. Investigation into corruption is one thing, but if we go the Impeachment route, we will look like idiots, and be thrown out in ’08. America is tired of this crap.

What! No investigation of William Jefferson who was found to have a cool million in bribery cash in his freezer? That seems to have been white washed by the DEMOGOGUES.

Stop all the investigations and blame games and get back to running the country.

I hope Dingell looks into the Energy Policy real soon also. New forms of energy are essential. However, at the same time why are we shipping billions of $ overseas when we have so much untapped energy here.

Thank God. It’s been a long time, but now we get to see how the other half has been working.

The Democrats do not want to be seen as mere obstructionists, so the issues must be chosen carefully. That said, almost all these look viable.
Mike Hayden at NSÅ would like this list. We’ll see if he skates.

The Democrats don’t know thw difference from a donkey’ rear end and I hole in the ground. The one thing they all know for sure is raise taxes, spend too much and molly coddle ever jerk water fanatic bunch in the world as if being dimplomatic will change a terriost into a saint!

The Democrats are going to have to make a choice, do they want their next few years to be about payback or pushing through legislation that the people want?
Let’s go after Bush while our soldiers are in the line of fire or do they push for a win which furthers our contry’s and also their long term future?
Pass minimum wage laws that have proven time and time again to not only increase unemployment but cause wage inflation that we all pay for anyway?
Regulate drug prices or stop allowing the NIH to subsidize drug companies’ R&D?
Fight our enemies or afford them legal rights?

Pathetic.
But certainly what I expect out of a corrupt democratic party.
The corrupted will now investigate.
Priceless….

One word; Veto.

I’m neither Dem or Rep but an ole Air Force Vet. I saw a lot of spending over in the Middle East. It sounds like someone in gov is going to start asking some questions about spending. I just hope they follow thru on their promises, or did they promise? I hope we get some honest anwers from the committees.

Is God great? Is God good? If so, Nancy Pelosi will get shot down in her efforts to become Speaker of the House. And others of the Dem Old Guard will not become committee heads.

This is a sad day for me. The Socialist-Communist party (formerly Democrats) in power is not good for this country. The tabloid media can pat themselves on the back for their ignorance.

Impeach Cheney First!

Bush and the Republicans should feel assured that the new majority Democrats will be bi-partisan, reach across the aisle, and include the minority party in decisions — all to exactly the same degree that the Republicans and Bush did these past six years.
I can’t wait.

God, It wil be so nice to have three branches of government again… Well, almost three.

A victory for America at last! Finally these war-hungry Republicans will have some explaining to do.

OOhhhh
Name calling-the favorite tactic of the right wing. Looks like it didnt get you very far LOSERS!!

The really sad thing about this election is that we will now fast-track to the legalization of 30 million or more criminal aliens.
Get out your wallet, because life for you (not for them!) is about to become significantly more expensive.
Enjoy your cheap lettuce and car washes.

Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about an affair with an adult women. So why can’t Bush be impeached for spying on Americans?

Well, for years I have seen my GOP turn into a bunch of criminals, and I was sickened by it. These people actually tried to steal government workers pensions who were 3 weeks away from retiring (reference Flight Service Stations in the FAA).
I am eagerly looking forward to these criminals to join DUKE CUNNINGHAM in prison. Only a party run by DELAY could turn a Vietnam war FIGHTER ACE into a criminal.

It is unreal that this nation would put these bitter nasty people back in charge. The next two years will be nothing but tearing down Bush and defeating the military. We have voted to lose yet another war and we deserve what we vote. It really bothers me that Americans are such whimps nowdays.

The Democrats are just doing their duty to investigate “high crimes” as the responsibility given to them by the Constitution of the United States of America. You don’t need to get all emotional. We all know George W. Bush lied to us in one way or another about the reasons for going to war. The moment he did that he knew he was taking a chance that one day he might be investigated for treason during a time of war. From a legal point of view, this could be punishable not only by impeachment but also by the death penalty.

YES! The House and SENATE are restored to the party of science and rational thinking! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but in the end, I am very grateful for the incompetence of George Bush’s neo-theo-conservative administration! I almost can’t wait to hear which Republican talking points the pathetic sycophants on the Fox News/Talk Radio circuit are spewing to explain away the nationwide rejection of the new minority party!

Dems will always be dems, wasting American tax dollars and end up achieving nothing.
If dems continue on the path they seem to be pursuing, in 08′ we’ll have another Republican President.

The american people are tired of Bush and his BS. When he meets his maker there will be lots of explaning to due on his behalf. Good luck putting a spin on death and immoral practices.

Nancy Pelosi will not onlybe the first woman speaker she also will be the firts italo-american to scale such prominence in our narional government. Ciao to Nancy!

Republicans, we allowed this to happen by staying home yesterday. It’s going to be a nasty 2 years. Let’s be ready for 2008 by putting the very best people up for election, have our usual forward thinking Ideas & prinicpals in place, and then go vote!

This morning I am very happy for the needed change in direction for this counrty. Impeachment would be a beautiful cherry on the top.

I really hate to see such negative comments regarding the Democrats. The problem with society today is that we can not come agree. Why are we interested in fighting for civil rights in another country and civil rights are still being violtated in this country; yes the US in 2006. Our children will have to inherit a debt because of what?…weapons of mass destruction. Negative comments, partisanship ideas and just plan old disregard for others are weapons of mass destruction. Who is fighting for us?

You bunch of whining crybabies. I onece worked for people like you and now I am retired. You always were condesending, and thought you were better than anyone else, with your Beemers and Mercedes and gated communities. Get READY! YOUR taxes will go up, and MY Benefits will go UP. You cannot hold the pursestrings any longer. Oh Boy… Your little houses of cards and the arrogance of you will have to come to an end. I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER.

I love how all the right-wingers are screaming about the spending that the Dems are going to do when the Republicans have been spending $2 billion a week in Iraq (where we didn’t even need to go in the first place).

“INVESTIGATE, THEN IMPEACH!!”???? Well, OK. Let’s start with Alan Hevesi the corrupt Comptroller for the State of New York. He admits to a “stupid mistake”(sure)that costs the taxpayers of NY over $200K and get’s re-elected. Being a democrat…priceless. Most voters…clueless.

This is wonderful.
Setting the GOP up to win HUGE in ’08.
Go to it Nancy with your disgusting Liberal Values.

great another democrat takeover because of another bush.wake up people we need a third party to get rid of these career politions the 2 party system are just a spin off of each other

Yeah, this is about what I expected – a lot of GOP and conservative morning-after cry-babies and whiners screeching about their losses and predicting the sky’s gonna fall. Even in their massive losses, they’re still using fear to make everyone think any attempt by the Democrats to investigate all the corruption wreaked by the GOP is going to backfire on them. There were wrongdoings; there WILL be consequences. And I just heard Rumsfeld is stepping down. A lot of this nation and the world have been in pain for the last four years (since the ’02 midterms) and now there’s relief. Let the GOP cry in their beers and be the ungracious losers they are, I say.

I was as fed up with the war effort as anyone, and I also am glad the bad apples in the Republican Party are getting what they deserved, but I am also afraid for this country. You can bet we will have higher taxes, legalization of illegal aliens, (most politicians want this of course because they are out of touch with most Americans), and another war effort lost.

Are you people delusional? why was it ok to waste millions of taxpayer money investigating marital infidelity but not spending it to investigate the cadres of lies and illegal actions taken by this administration? Why are you scared? The Constitution may actually survive now, whereas it had no chance whatsoever previously, and considering it’s the foundation on which this country was built,that’s a positive. Why is ok for there to be a corporate climate in which money is made hand over fist but the workers get increasingly smaller and smaller percentages of it? Why do you people consistently vote against your own best interests? Unless you all are in the top 10% or so of income earners in this country, this administration and the 109th Congress have done NOTHING for you but screw you. I am not even a liberal, I am a moderate. I know the Democrats are a far cry from perfect but the direction toward self-destruction in which this country was heading HAD to be stopped and this was the only means available. I only hope the Democrats have found their backbone and don’t appease this administration and their agenda of obtaining absolute power. If not, America and this magnificant experiment in democracy may just have been saved.

We don’t have much of a choice when it comes to raising taxes, at some point we’re gonna have to pay for the huge spending spree the Republicans have had. It’s not the Democrat’s fault that we have to pay for what we’ve spent.
As for investigations, if crimes have been committed they need to be dealt with. This is a country of law and order and crime must be punished. If I commit a crime I go to jail, why should some be exempt from that?
The Democrats by no means will make this country a eutopia and that’s not why they were voted in, they were voted in to stop the corruption. And in a few years I’m sure the Republicans will have their turn. As Pat Buchanon recently stated, power corrupts.

Perhaps if the Republicans had acted like they controlled the House and Senate and had behaved like the conservatives who put them there expected, they might have remained in control. I wonder if we’ll survive long enough to give them another chance.

Go ahead and investigate Halliburton. Maybe then the company will get some fair press.
Last time I checked (and I did) over 70 Halliburton employees had given their lives in Iraq. There is no one in the world who could (or would) have done this job. Leave it to the Dems to heap more contempt on someone trying to actually do something rather than sit back and criticize.
The Democrats now can no longer complain–they have to govern. Does not look good if this is the agenda.
God save America from ourselves.

This is all so funny! The anger and absolete need for revenge that still flows out of the Dems! Yes: *please* IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH for the next 2 years until the next election!!! You’ll so turn off the entire electorate that we Republicans will just coast back into power again. And we’ll deserve to! Just wait and see: revenge is sweet, but packback is even better!!!

Thank God – There is Justice after all! Its about time!!!
Has anyone thought about the Trillions of Dollars we are in debt due to George Bush??? There is no argument there – if anyone can justify that much debt – let’s hear it!!!

I see some “why not govern well instead of payback” sentiments. Ummm, they actually work together. That corruption wasted money, endangered lives and stability, and so forth. There is plenty of resource to both crack down on and punish (or else what incentive not to do again?) corruption and make good governance as well.

Neither party represents the people. Both are corrupt. The best we could do was send a message that the Republicans blew it. They had a chance to really make a change and they went the wrong way.
Lets hope the election at least puts an end to the madness!!

I also notice some gripes about “socialist” democrats taking over, the way they supposedly veered to the left. – but the Republicans and the punditocracy are saying, the Dems only won so big this time because so many of them were centrist/relatively conservative. Well, both of you can’t be right.

Now we can finally find out about the Democrats grand plan.
All we have heard from them is how bad the Republicans have been, while offering nothing in the way of an idea to make things better.
Surely the Democrats have been holding back.
No need to hold back now let’s get all those solutions to our bad economy(oh wait the economy is great), safety(wait we haven’t had a terrorist attack since 9/11), and the war(cut and run).

It is time to stop the Republican corruption and get rid of King George.

How is tax and spend worse than borrow and spend on your children’s credit card?

Corruption has been allowed to fester. Crimes have been committed. The Constitution has been abused. And thousands of our brave soldiers lie dead. Dealing with these issues is not “revenge”. It’s called doing the people’s business.
Republicans should stop trying to demonize Democrats, and start taking responsibility for their mistakes. This isn’t a game. This is the future of our nation.

Quick!, move your money to tax free bonds until the communists are out of power again.

Nancy Pelosi is just an impeachment and a heart attack away from being America’s first female president.
:)

JOY!!! Now maybe we’ll end oil company subsidies since they are raking in record profits. Maybe now we’ll find Osama since Bush took his eye off the ball by getting us into this foolish, unnecessary war in Iraq. As Colin Powell said, it’s the Pottery Barn rules, we broke it we have to fix it. Maybe now our brave men and women serving this country will get the equipment and direction they need to finish the job in Iraq. Maybe now we’ll have scientists able to tell the truth and not be gagged by the Bush administration.
To the newly elected Democratic majority in congress, GET THE JOB DONE!

To all of you overly excited Democrats – enjoy the next 2 years and try to get all of your revenge out of your system. It looks like Rumsfeld is stepping down. Make sure you go after Bush, Cheney and every other Republican that is still in office. You got voted in to make a change in the status quo for Congress. Get to work. Otherwise 2008 will be champagne and lobster for the RNC.

I am ashamed to be an American today. The results of this election show the extent of the stupidity in this country. We are mad at the Republicans for not doing what we elected them to do so we elect the Democrats who we know will do the opposite of what we want them to do. Better to be all wrong then half right. That makes sense.

Sheesh – if the GOP supporters here are to be believed, the Parade of Terribles with the Dems now in control of one portion of one branch of government is really frightening. But, I somehow remember happier days over a decade ago when I could find a good paying job within an hour’s drive from home, not pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of commuting to that job, not have to worry about which country my government was going to invade while I was asleep at night, and rest assured that my civil liberties would be intact when I awoke. Oh yeah, and we were talking about “balanced budgets” and “surplusses” instead of “record national debt” coupled with “tax cuts.” Doesn’t seem like a bad way to go to me…
I, for one, am breathing a sigh of relief that voters finally saw the one-party-rule government as bad for America. It’s good to have a little balance of power restored for a change.

The republicans were fired because they refused to do their jobs. They took an oath to protect the constitution and perform their duties. They did neither. It disgusts me to read the insane rationalization in the comments above. Listen fools!!!!! Haliburton and the special interest are ripping off you, your kids, your grand kids, and your great grand kids. You are too stupid to realize it. If you continue listening to fox lies and the drug addict, you will never know any better. You fascist need to go and sit down now. The republic, with its balance of power, was here before you and will be here when you leave.

A while back Nancy Pelosi said “The gavel of the Speaker of the House is in the hands of Special Interests, and now it will be in the hands of America’s CHILDREN”.
Truer words have never been spoken. The CHILDREN are in charge. Anyone remember sophomore student council and all it’s wonderful accomplishments? Anyone? Anyone? Beuhler?
Remember Leftists….at some point your cowardice and unwillingness to deal with the reality of the Islamofacists will become a danger to my family. That will not be allowed.

It’s easy to vote for “change.” It is much more difficult to come up with ideas. While there are some conservatives and moderates in the Democratic party who have solid proposals, every leadership position in the House will be taken by the far left.
When Republican get beat, they admit defeat. When Democrats get beat, they claim someone stole the election.
When Republicans get caught, they quit. When Democrats get caught, they ride out the scandal.
Voters are all over the map. In Arizona, the Republicans lost 2 federal House seats but the 4 anti-illegal alien ballot initiatives (e.g. no punitive damages, no in-state tuition, English as the offical language) passed with over 72% of the vote. Also, don’t forget who “pro war” Connecticut returned to the U.S. Senate.
Congratulations are in order to the Democratic Pary and to ABC News, who both worked hard to make these election results happen. Perhaps now there will be a story on Iraq that is something other than a body count.

The American people have suffered lie after lie from the Administration and Congress – about the rationale for invading Iraq, the conduct of the war, the treatment of prisoners, the cost of the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the illegal behavior of their own elected representatives.
We deserve to hear the truth about what the government has been doing for the past six years. We can’t make informed choices about future policy by glossing over the mistakes of the past.
It’s no surprise that right-wing fanatics only want to talk about Democrats “taking revenge.” I don’t expect they’ll ever admit their party made mistakes and covered them up.
But why wasn’t the GOP investigating these issues all along? Why couldn’t it be trusted to guard our laws and constitution?
Certainly, the Democrats will investigate and get to the bottom of these scandals. It’s not revenge. It is, I hope, the return of honesty and transparency to Washington.

I hope this election shows the Democrats for what they are. Just do nothing but blame,power-hungry Bush haters!They, with the help of our liberal press,have been nursing their presidential election losses since Bush was sworn into office. It is a pitiful shame that this country has become so divided over sore losers! It scares me to think of our future under the Democrats!

Revenge!! Revenge!! It’s time for the corrupt GOP jerks to pay for their sins. Six years of Bush-sense and 12 years of a Republican congress have absolutely depleted this country. It’s been an abomination. Republican voters are so blind, they don’t want to see the truth (corruption, lies, BS) because they only care about protecting their interests..primarily money.

PAUL HUNTER FOR PRESIDENT!!! Bravo Paul!!

Pray for the US. With Pelosi in charge, it’s a sad day for the country. i thought Gephardt was bad but she hasn’t even been given the job yet and already talking about retribution.
Taxes will go up to fund every liberal left wing cause of the month, the ‘rubber stamp’ the DNC campaigned against, has returned in the form of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
God help us all

12 years of hatchet politics, blatant corruption, disingenuous religious piety, outright lies and rampant greed are at an end. I hope Nancy and company bloody some noses on the other side of the aisle. This is a great day for real patriots.
When you elect people who unfailingly claim that government can’t solve any problems, that its inherently inefficient and doomed to fail, don’t be surprised when they fail to govern well.
Raise my taxes, raise the minimum wage, legalize gay marriage, I don’t care: just get some vision and idealism in D.C.!

Revenge!! Revenge!! It’s time for the corrupt GOP jerks to pay for their sins. Six years of Bush-sense and 12 years of a Republican congress have absolutely depleted this country. It’s been an abomination. Republican voters are so blind, they don’t want to see the truth (corruption, lies, BS) because they only care about protecting their interests..primarily money.

Although I voted s stright Democratic ticket, it was more to repudiate the Republican fauxes pas and their policies.
When approached by the Democratic National Committee for donations I asked what new bold ideas they have. NONE.
I’m working on starting a third party (GRACSP – Grassroots and Common Sense party) with a platform that includes details of what we would do.
I can’t wait to see what the Democratic PLAN is.

It’s interesting to note that many of you are calling for imprisonment and death penalty for people who don’t agree with you. This is the purging of your enemies that has happened throughout man’s history.
Welcome back Stalin. You are alive and well with a new name.

How “relieving” to know the party that thinks we evolved from monkeys, murders babies, protects child predators, raises taxes, bashes the military, rewards illegal imigrants, attacks religion, supports free speach unless its in line with thier view, blames america, appeases terrorists, worships gay rights and mocks God is finally making a come back…Aren’t things just looking GREAT!

Well the people just elected what the terrorists wanted most. A lame duck party that supports killing baby killers and supports home sexual marriage. Great strides for a country founded on christian values and principles. Check you history. We are in for a sorry two years with democrats worried about nothing but revenge and not what’s best for the country. Congratulations America another fine set of immoral choices.

Hey all you damn GOP,ers. Did you raise a stink when the GOP investigated just about everything the Clintons did. Have you forgotten Travelgate, Monicagate and other investigations. As for the liberal tag, we’ll take it.

You notice how liberals do not use their name most of the time when they make comments…like “left of center”….and so forth?
I will make a prediction. We will see the war in Iraq be brought here. While democrats are busy pointing fingers at the “other side”…our enemy will be busy attacking us – from the inside! So when they invade, I would like to put the democrats on the front line….since they “care so much about America”.
There is a God, and I believe in Him. I do not think, however, that God blessed us with the democrats. These people are false prophets, wolves in sheep’s clothing. They want justice while living in injustice. We’ve all seen partisan politics end with garbage. It must become about America…not Republican or Democrat. If this is what the dems want – God help us…because it will not be pretty. Rest assured though, when all of “bad stuff” happens – they can easily blame the good man, President Bush. (pass the buck) May God help that man.

I feel that republicans are a bunch of greedy, money hungry snakes!!!!!!!! Republicans are only out to make more money, more money and more money. Fromer President Clinton was one of the greatest presidents ever!! There are so many flaws in our country today we are the laughing stock of the world. No one respects us as a people or a country!! The republican party is one big joke!!! It is time for some new blood and fast!!!!!! Thanks to all the african americans who went to the polls and did there civic duty to make things better for our next generations!!!

Republican whiners are like music to my ears. It’s not about payback. It’s about prosecuting those who have abused the privilege of representing us. The Republican Administration and Congress tried to conceal blatant cases of fraud and bribery for political and financial reasons. Why is it so bad for Democrats to want to prosecute and expose this corruption for political reasons? Which Party is going to benefit us at this time? The one which conceals or encourages such crimes or the one who exposes them?

Breaking News:
THE INSURGENTS WON!!! (Not to mention William Jefferson of LA)
Yes, buy blowing up and beheading innocent civilians, and with a little help from CNN you can turn America on itself. Proof: Nov 7 2006.
Now they will be emboldened to carry out more religious hatred against America without any fear of reprisal or self-defense by the U.S. They no longer have to worry about having U.S. intelligence tracking them down. Washington will be busy invetsigating Duke Cunningham.
I noticed that all the left-wing bloggers who are demanding investigations have ignored the one representative who was caught red handed taking a $100k bribe. I guess libral angst against corruptin has its limits.

*sighs*
I sometimes think that the best hope for this country is that the majority of people who blog are just the ‘lunatic fringe’. Both parties have bitter, vindictive politicians. Both parties have people who make it their habit to paint an untrue picture of the ‘other team’. Both sides have a hypocritical attitude towards partisanship that amounts to ‘it is right when we are doing it’.
I just cross my fingers and hope that real people start making real decisions for good government. People who actually look at what is going on and make decisions based on the needs of the moment instead of simply clinging dogmaticly to party rhetoric. Frankly, if you are commenting in this thread with a broad paintbrush about either side you are part of the problem.
Maybe we were, maybe we weren’t justified in going into Iraq. That’s for history to decide. It doesn’t matter right now. What matters is handling the situation in the best way for our country. The same thing applies to most other issues facing us. I don’t think it is important in the slightest whose party line says what. I think people need to start working on the actual problems and quit focusing on just demonizing the opposition.

Republicans the party of “ideas”?
I’ll agree with you there. Like the ideas that have resulted in tens of thousands of dead Iraqis, and thousands of American soldiers — or the ones that have turned a trillion-dollar surplus inside out — or the ones that have eroded our basic civil liberties in the guise of security — or the ones that have resulted in secret prisons where torture is the best way to gain intelligence.
Yep, those are really some ideas. Congratulations, and try to keep defending those ideas to your friends and neighbors — especially the ones who vote. Every little bit helps.

Democrats are the SAME jackasses who protected Clinton after he PERJURED HIMSELF TWICE…..
There is NO honor in the Democrat party…Socialists every one, and your ASS POCKET will know it very soon.
ABC NEWS ?
Democrat / Socialists….
America has NO chance…. it’s just a matter of time before we’re attacked because the democrats CAN’T OR WON’T FIGHT.

EXHALE!!! :-)

IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!! IMPEACH!!

Well, just remember this was a defeat for teh republicans and not for conservatives. I most of the states we lost, a conservative democrat was elected. So in two years the republicans will get a chance again to be cfonservative and maybe they’ll win.
As for revenge/payback. This will be bad for dems if they do. Americans will get pissed of at the waste of time and opportunity. If they do waste all this time, then you can rest assure that republicans will regain power.
Finally, we should also take notice that Americans did not vote this way because they want Nancy Pilosi as speaker. They voted this way to send a message to republicans, “be conservative or be extinct.”
Oh, and remember you get the government you deserve.
SWH

To all you depressed Republicans,
While I am overjoyed that this country’s fourteen year Rightmare is finally over, I agree with you that the Dems must not simply investigate and criticize but rather lead the country forward in a way that the GOP has proved totally incapable of doing, especially since 2000.
But aren’t you at least a little relieved at the possibility of America being respected and liked in the world once again, and no longer abandoning our future for momentary greed, reckless ideology, and manipulated fear?
Let’s all hope that this positive trend does in fact begin, and that a decade from now both Parties will deserve the credit for it.

It’s pretty funny listening to people decry the end of the US because the Democratic party is taking control.
Face it , the Republicans and the far right, have destroyed themselves through corruption, and lies.
The Republicans have driven up the largest deficit and debt in our history. They have expanded the government, etc… They have done everything that people usually blame on the Democrats.
As usual, republicans and conservative fail at logic. What’s new… Most of you don’t live in reality, you live in some crazed la la-land.

Here’s their game plan as done to Bush 41:1. Sabatoge the economy with tax increases then blame the president.2. Attempt to make us lose the war by rehtoric and withdrawing funding. 3. Blaming their own inadequecies on the Administration.4 Lying about the present economy. 5. Promising bogus new programs that won’t pass and then blaming the republicans ie. universal healthcare. 6. Finally, putting a pathological liar to run for president (wife of last pathological lying president).

Don’t want investigations? And you call yourself patriotic? What’s NOT patriotic is committing crimes in America’s name and then accusing anyone who would protest to be unpatriotic, unamerican, or traitorous. How many billion dollars have been funnelled down the rathole called the War in Iraq and now we are supposed to look the other way? Or should I say, CONTINUE to look the other way? And now that our civil liberties have been trounced in the name of the War on Terror, we are just supposed to keep keeping our mouths shut lest we get accused of helping the terrorists? With no discussion about what exactly is a War on Terror? And how exactly does the War in Iraq relate to the War on Terror? No. No. And No Again. What would be unpatriotic and unamerican would be to NOT ask these questions.

Have some faith in this country.

if liberal democrat polices worked NY would still be the empire state.

The world has an opinion of Americans as “Instant gratifying society”. When I saw the results I was surprized that so many democrates actually won without any agenda or solutions to any single problem whatsoever. It kind of reminded me of the elections in India.
I think Bush is very good, humble guy who controlled himself from using drastic measures in Iraq. If anyone seriously believes that USA cannot win the war in Iraq, they should get their head examined. Many people including me believe that “Bush actually won the popularity contest in yesterday’s election”.
Way to go GW and keep up the good work. You have actually cleared the way for Republicans in 2008.

The sky is falling…the sky is falling…heading toward a 10 trillion dollar debt, 300 billion deficit, 2 billion a week on a mess in Iraq, donut hole is medicare prescription drug plan, Katrina, Congressional corruption, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Abramoff, Tom Delay, Foley, Iraq reconstruction, good job brownie, North Korea playing with their nukes, Iran threatening the region with their soon to be capability…the Republicans have been in charged when all of this happened…and yet these fools are worried about Democrats taking over congress…the Republicans have proven themselves inept…god forbid some oversight…we had 6 years of total Republican control….look what it got us?

The republicans are sure out whining today. It’s so much fun to seem their complaints complete with misspellings. Maybe if they spent more time educating themselves they wouldn’t be here moaning they lost.
Poor sorry little people.
Wow. We can breathe again!
Congrats my fellow Democrats. It feels like Christmas (or any other similar holiday)!!

I’m surprised at the reaction voiced here to the Democrats retaking control of the House (and perhaps Senate). Why not let the hype settle down and see what the new leadership actually does vice all the talking heads and village idiots speculating on what will happen? Many of those newly elected this year ran on moderate tickets and it will be interesting to see what may happen if elected representatives actual represent thier constituents and not blindly follow their party.
I think it is ignorant to fully blame the current administration for the national debt — been a long time in the making and both parties have dirty hands. I think it is also ignorant to state that America electing a democrat majority means they don’t support the troops deployed in Iraq. Many democrats and most of those elected this year have stated over and over again, they support the troops — but not the overall strategy.
Why can’t we have an open debate on the issue without calling each other names or accusing each other of not being patriotic.
Hey thats my 2 cents worth.

great! great ! great! as an independent ohioan who voted for bush the last 2 elections, i gave a shot and voted for a democrat for senate. Now I see this petty garbage about revenge. We, the people in the “middle”- the moderate independents, the moderate democrats and the moderate republicans do not want to see the extreme on either side!!! so if you want to put someone like john conyers in charge of the judiciary committee you will turn ohio and a lot of battleground states back to the extreme right wing. Use your common sense democrats- put a face of moderation to your party!!

I wander why much of the rest of the world is happy the Democrats are taking over. They know the Democrats are more worried about cutting down fellow americans, protecting thier right to kill babies, helping the gays get “rights” and stopping global warming than holding them accountable for thier actions. They know they can do what they want without fear of consequences. And if you thing Bush is wire tapping everyday people you’re a blithering idiot. The feds SHOULD have the right to listen to “Americans” talking to terrorist affiliated people. You’re blind hatred for Bush is hurting this country. If the Democrats had complete power we would be fighting the terrorists with fly swatters and bags of carrots. Even if most Democrats aren’t as extreme, the people that you are giving power are and don’t have whats good for america on thier agenda, it’s what’s good for them and bad for Bush. Don’t even to pretend to be “real patriots”. Your as far away from being a patriot as you can get.

NOW WE’LL SEE SOME CHECKS-AND-BALANCES IN GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF THIS ONE PARTY RULE!!!

Dems didn’t win, the GOP lost. Now the dems have an opportunity here. They can show the American people that they are not controlled by the rabid liberal fringe. They can show that they do want the U.S. to win in Iraq. They have a great opportunity here. If they squander it and engage in petty revenge tactics, then in two years they’ll have something new to complain about.
The American voter has basically thumped the GOP on the head. They got wooped and deservedly so. They’ve had the house and senate and have done nothing. They have gotten away from their core values which is what got them in power to begin with. If Dems are smart, they won’t go back to the dem-playbook. That’s what got them voted out of office in the first place.

The pendulum moved yesterday, but not as far as many would like to think. It does, however, reflect a mood change, at least among the voting citizens. Time will tell if the changes we are looking for do happen and move all of us toward a safer and more sustainable existence.
Somewhere along the way we have lost our innate sense of curiosity and our ability to welcome change, to try something new. In times past, we have been a nation of innovation, of inventors, of dare I say, “radical” thinking. We have thrived on our ability to adopt the new ideas into our lives to make us more secure, more comfortable, better off. Our country has led the world as a physical and fiscal power by riding on the shoulders of those new ideas and inventions. Let’s look forward to the opportunities this new mix of Washington occupants offers, and not dwell on how they are different than yesterday.
There are so many important issues to address such as climate change, pollution, the national debt, and healthcare reform, to name a few, that it is time for us to lift our thoughts up above the negative quagmire, and move on. Vernon Law, a Cy Young pitcher, once said “You’ll never reach second base if you keep one foot on first base.”
We as a citizenry are really good at debating, at discussing, and perhaps not always so good at listening to others or thinking things through or moving bravely forward. It is encouraging that we show that we still really care about how our country is run by the passion of our political debate, despite all the “red” and “blue” warts uncovered in Washington. Let’s harness that energy to join the red, the white and the blue together again into a powerful world force.

Now is the time for everyone to really be praying for our country!
God Bless America!

I guess we will see what happens when people think that the government can spend your money better then you can.
I think the Republicans really dropped the ball on this one….

Every decade or so there arises a block of naive voters.
Democrats typically run for office on the right but then govern on the left once they are in.
In 1992 people thought they were going to get a middle class tax cut but got gays in the military instead. There was a lot of disappointment expressed about that.
The American people will definitely be disappointed by the Democrats this time when they finally see the big mess the Dems will make.
But that is the price of educating gullible new voters.

I for one am in favor of “home sexual marriage: – honey, are you reading this? ha ha ha

Anyone who thinks bin Laden is dancing in the streets right now has no clue about the Middle East or how to succeed in the War on Terror. George W. Bush’s arrogant and violent unilateralism, particularly the pointless and cynical invasion of Iraq, is the best thing that ever happened to the radical Islamists’ cause. An American foreign policy rooted in skillful leadership, common sense and moral committments to the world at large — which the Dems are much more capable of doing than the GOP — is truly bin Laden’s worst nightmare. Doesn’t anyone remember the Cold War and George Kennan? Containment, realism, and living up to own high ideals as a nation — that’s how you defeat your enemies in the long-run, whether communists or jihadists.

The first touchdown has been scored…Dumbsfeld is gone!

It’s called Congressional Oversight. It’s been missing for 6+ years.

OK–All you people who’s lives are over now that the Democrats are taking over. Now I will take the name of the Bush in vain. His own party said they had enough of his
Rove “my way or the highway”. I am older than 12 years and I have seen the Republican party come and go–they are power-mad and always “do as I say, not as I do.”
And they ALWAYS collapse like this–from the rubber stamping, and over-spending but giving everybody a tax reduction lollypop to make WHOPPING deficits before they go. But Bush was truly different as he had Rove-the-Enforcer to spread dirty little lies about fellow politicians and destroy their political as well as personal lives. And Bush also told us dirty little lies about why we went to war with Iraq–pick one or all–this is the reason: Saddam Hussien, the terrorists in Iraq then, the WMD, the terrorists in Iraq now, and finally 3 days ago–
to increase the free world’s oil
supply. OK–were any of these reasons worth 2500 American lives?
Were any of these reasons worth
12,000 wounded and maimed Americans? And I sincerely hope you guys will stand up on your hind legs about increasing the medical benefits for all the maimed
and wounded cause most are under 30
and gonna need these benefits for a
long, long, time. Because while you were all listening to Rush Limbaugh and the Fox network, the
Republicans first froze, and then cut veterans’ medical benefits.
Let’s try to work together now and give the Democrats a chance–greed
and hate ARE NOT good.

Did any of you READ this article before posting? Do any of those agenda items sound like “revenge” or any sort? Exactly who is revenge exacted upon by raising the minimum wage and determining where tax money is being wasted?

America Won this election. The democrats will give us so much more…. More..
Abortions
Gay Marriages
Illegal Aliens
Taxes
Welfare
Big Goverment inteference
Environmentalism
Gun Laws
Terrorists
and more of the best legislative judges money can buy.
Admerica will get much much more.

The scariest thing about the comments I just read is the lack of tolerance on both sides of the spectrum. Demograts looking for vengence not justice just because they were lost the last to election and republicans saying we betrayed our troops.
Both are fanatical views. He people of the nation spoke this year as they did in all the last election. To waste the counties time with unnecessary hearing is ludacris. We need to try to reduce this anamosity not increase it. As a defense worker I see my job thearten again. The anti defense people will say we will develope new industry that will use your talent by funding new initiative. That great except these new businesses don’t believe we can do the job outside the defense industry.
I voted my conscience as did all americans. Some of the candidates I voted for lose some won. Thathow it works. I move on. But for all those looking for revenge be careful what you want because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. You may open a bag of worms that may bite yyou.

hmmmm…..isn’t Corneyn part of the old KGB clique? At least according to documents, Kennedy, Corneyn & Company have once before betrayed this country. This is the time for Dems to show what they are made off! Terrorists rights, gay marriage, aboartion…abortion, and more abortion, partial birth abortion, abolishment of God all together, but installing allah into schools? How about re-creating the 90′s once more, preparing the way for the islamic fascists to strike with a nuke this time rather than planes? Or how about ripping the military apart, whom they so loathe? Time will tell, but they only have 2 yrs!

“All the comments about payback. Osma Bin Laden is dancing in the streets. Remember, we are fighting in Iraq so we don’t have to fight in the U.S. When the next tragedy occurs on our soil, remember it did not happen with the Republicans in charge. The price to pay.”
This is a perfect example of how screwed up Bush supporters are. Osama’s location is an unknown. As of Sept 11 he probably WAS NOT in Iraq, and probably has not been there since. Why do people muddle up Sept 11th, Osama, and the Taliban with Saddam and Iraq? They are no connections. Yeah Osama is dancing in the streets! He sure is! A majority of our engaged troops are probably thousands of miles away from him….
Tax and spend Democrats? That beats the hell out of a cut taxes and toss money to your pals as you spend as fast as you can republicans.

Is anyone really surprised that the Democratic agenda is payback & recrimination? Anyone been listening to Pelosi, Conyers, et al. over the past few years? The agenda will focus on placing blame, not solving problems. America, you got what you asked for — and what you deserve.

So many angry republicans are fearing tax increases, increased government spending, and minimum wage hikes. Don’t they realize that the republicans just finished running up the biggest budget deficet in history, actually increased taxes to all but the richest americans, and have allowed outsourcing of American jobs to other countries through their laissez-faire economix policies? I just don’t understand the reasoning behind most of these comments, maybe it’s lack of education?

Despite the ignorant and fear-driven emotionalism of some who have commented here, investigating the crimes and corruption which has gone unchecked for the last six years is the most appropriate use of the Democrats time in the new Congress. Exit polls show concern with corruption as the #1 issue for voters in this election. The diversion of our nation to war based on false intelligence, to corrupt way that money budgeted for Iraq reconstruction has been spent, the cosy relationship between Republicans and the Oil Industry, all of these are fit subjects for investigation and prosecution. We owe it to the thousands of dead American troops and the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians to investigate and prosecute the war criminals of the Bush Administration as vigorously as the Iraqi government prosecuted Sadaam Husein and his cronies.

The American people just put into power the only group more corrupt than the republicans.

boy,
After the next 2 years it is gonna be a peice of cake for the republicans to win back congress and the senate in 2008.
by the next election people are going to be made that the Dems let their tax’s get raised, they are going to be tired of the endless investigations into BUSH who can’t run for office again, they are going to be tired of Dems passing more government spending (one big reason republicans got kicked out they didn’t cut spending), MOST people will be upset with a forced increase in min wage. Min wage jobs are STARTER jobs… NOT to raise a faimly on, use that to get a better paying job (yeah, I did it so can you..)..
Our country is screwed for the next 2 years.

Hey former Vet, if we’re making such wonderful (unreported) progress in Iraq, can you explain to us why are more and more of your fellow soldiers coming back in body bags each month ? This kind of progress, no one needs.
And as for all the Dems, congratulating themselves at being against the war, may I remind you, in 2003 when the war started, 88 PERCENT of all Americans believed that attacking Iraq was a good idea. I highly doubt this space is filled with the 12 percent of people who were smart enough to be against the war in the first place – You ALL have blood on your hands.

Let’s see…. NP wants a 12 year old girl to be able to get an abortion with parental knowledge or consent but that same girl cannot opt out of school prayer on her own. Less than 4% of American workers make the minimum wage yet we’re going to see thousands of small businesses fail because of it. I think I’m going to get more confused in the coming months. Oh, if you want to see what the Liberal Agenda will yield, look at California today. Growing welfare, businesses leaving the state, anything not moving is taxed, anything moving is licensed, and still not enough money to pay for the cheap labor source and their drain on the system. Welcome to America — NOW SPEAK ENGLISH.

The republicans have been on a spending spree not the democrats. Apparently they only know how to spend like crazy, not even how to tax. I guess our children can pay for their excesses.

I agree that we should all drop the party battles and work together for the country and our existence. What the Democratic party needs to do is to drop all of their liberal party ideologies that have infested them. That’s one of the main reasons the parties don’t see eye to eye.

Nancy Pelosi is way to smart to start trying to get revenge. The voters did it for her. When is the right wing going to realize that most of us are in the middle? Forgetting that is what caused this election year debacle for the Republicans. Rumsfield is gone. Let’s hope that Cheney is to follow. I can see Cheney resigning so Bush can appoint someone who might have a chance of winning in 2008, if he’s smart enough to do that effectively.

Well it’s what they’ve wanted, even Rumsfeld gone.
Let’s see what the Dems do about the War on Terror, if it really exists for them, and the jihad fanatics, suicide bombers, Iraqi insurgents, Israel haters, etc. etc.
Betcha everyone is just gonna start loving the old U.S.A. now that the Dems are on the case.

Well, I was just thinking the other day how much I regretted having more money, that I wasn’t paying enough in taxes, and that I was too protected. Now it looks like I’ll get to see these things come true, thanks to our new Congress. You know there was a reason America was the best country in the world, and now the Democrats will take that all away. But hey, as long as people can come into the country illegally and I can work harder to pay for their benefits, I guess that makes me a caring, compassionate person. And let’s not even go into national security. If this election took place in 1942, we’d be a lot less diverse, more blonde and blue eyed. Sure we’d have German as the national language, but at least we’d be understanding to those misunderstood people who want to kill us.
Congratulations to everyone who voted the Democrats into control. I guess the phrase “USA #1″ was getting a little too tired. Great idea, let’s model ourselves after the French.

The Republicans lost becasue they became Democrat-Lite. The Reagan conservatism that got them their majorities was tossed out the window and they spent and became corrupt like the Democrats before them. It’s high time for a 3rd party based on Reagan conservatism!
Yes, it is about my wallet because I work for my money and if you take it from me and give it to someone else, that’s the basic definition of theft!

Thank God, the Republicans are gone from being the majority..They lie , chea, steal and pretend to be for moral valuesl. They are hyprocites..just like Mark Foley and Ted Haggard..The big business profited from the republicans. The middle class is disappearing. Jobs gone overseas for cheap labor but the american people have to pay higher for drugs, food,clothing .
Good Riddance…Just because you preach the right words dont make u a preacher..Just because the Re-publican (as in the bible publican) they were considered hyprocrites…same thing…

Hilarious! Bush and his gang of corrupt idiots run the country into the ground in every conceivable way — endangering Americans here and abroad with their cluelessness and arrogance — and the people above are whining about the dangers posed by the DEMOCRATS?
Ah, the pretzel-logic miracles of faith-based politics.

Steve,
I thought we already did impeach the worst President this country ever had when Clinton was impeached…

The issue isn’t the ‘DemoCans’, they’re two sides of the same coin – and it’s a dirty one.
America has been cruising for a thorough trouncing domestically and internationally for 20+ years, and no one seems to get it.
Neither of these party’s are your ‘buds’. Both parties will screw you into the dirt – the only difference is in what order they’ll do it in.
I’m still waiting for someone to show me where the Constitution says that this is a “two-party system”.
“Scam” ios what it is.

The United States citizenry gets what they vote for…in this case, the next 2 years will be filled with the venal, vindictive and vitriolic Democratic party political-masturbation. They intend only revenge and to tear down Bush, as incompetent as he has been–to focus on impeachment or petty revenge does not and will not serve our Nation well. The spineless majority of Democrats will press for a policy in Iraq which will harm the Nation’s war on terror and the Nation’s credibility in the World. If the Democrats force a cut and run policy, it is the end of American values being spread around the world and it is the beginning of an all out cultural war against the West by Islamo-facists. American’s have such a short memory. All they care about is taxes and gas prices. They hate to see the “blood of their boys” shed–but they want world stability. In today’s world these are competing ideals/goals. I am sick of both the liberal Democrats and the ineptitude of the Bush Administration. Our national leadership is deplorable.

Go ahead, show your true colors.

The Wingnuts here are confused. The Democrats are going to reach out to the sane core of the Republican Party and get stuff done. We tried the Angry Wingnut approach for over a decade. It doesn’t work.
Let the kooks yell, that’s what they do best. Time for the rest of us to move forward!

Historically the Dems have been the party of “good intentions” but “bad results” (Ex – Welfare – the good intention is to provide for the poor but the bad result is the dependant class it creates). The GOP has historically been the party that takes action even when it is not the popular thing to do (Ex – The 1964 Civil Rights movement was spearheaded by the GOP and opposed by the Dems and a lot of the public then). The war in Irag is not, as the Dems say, a distraction from the war on terror. It is the war on terror. Some day this will be seen as an historical vote, for if the Dems are successful in what their core supporters want – a swift pull out from Iraq – it will be known as the turning point in the war. The terrorist know this and have been playing the American media and the Dems like a cheap violin. A swift pull out from Iraq is the beginning of the terrorist’s victory in the war.

The Dems have a choice: play the sore loser from 2000 and 2004 and play petty games of revenge (which will just send America back into the arms of the GOP in 2008), or take this opportunity for what it really is: a chance to get things (positve things) done. Unfortunately, I have no doubt that the far-left, anti-U.S. socialists of the party will get the reigns, destroy the recent economic gains with HUGE tax increases (can we say communism?), open our borders to 30 million poor, illiterate, government-dependent ILLEGAL aliens that will FURTHER hurt the economy, cut-and-run in Iraq, and take their cues from the anti-U.S., anti-capitalism, anti-democracy UNITED NATIONS.
Thank God we’ll have another election in two years where REASONABLE people -moderate Dems and the GOP- will be put back in charge. Until then, LET THE DAMAGE TO THE COUNTRY BEGIN!

Investigations are a waste of time and money, and the independent voters will punish the Democrats if they do it, just like they did in 1998 when the GOP did it.
What everyone seems to have forgotten is that Bush is now a lame duck, and there is a wide open race for President (no incumbent President or VP) for the first time in 54 years., Attention will shift to 2008 in a matter of a few days. Hillary Clinton and John McCain will hold the media’s attention, not your petty need for revenge.

Wow! So many comments posted, some agreeable, some not. America, for the most part, has spoken, and has decided that it’s time for a change. A two-year change? Possibly. But a change nonetheless. We can only hope that those who are in the majority now will actually have listened to what the people said, and go forward from there. One comment here really irked me, as I, too, am a Veteran of the US. I served in the Navy in the 1970′s. This vote does not mean we don’t support the soldiers — I can’t stand Bush, but I still support our troops. I don’t believe in a war built and started on lies, but I support the soldier, sailor, marine, etc., over there. There is a difference, and you’re confusing apples with oranges. The new players don’t take the field until January, and a lot can happen between now and then. Today is only the “day after”… if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen — follow the leader — Rumsfeld just left!!! :)

Simply…We are sooo screwed.

it’s called oversight folks! not revenge. it’s in the constitution, i suggest some of you read it. it’s not a new concept, and it’s a well held practice of balancing federal power for over 230 yrs. there was oversight when kennedy embarked on the cuban incident, johnson in vietnam, nixon with his deal in watergate, reagan, and clinton. bottom line is it works and helps keep the executive in check! whether you’re left or right learn to appreciate a balanced government that works best for everyone’s interest, not those of a few.

Well, I guess the one positive point of this whole fiasco (Dems taking over Congress) is that it will expose them now. They didn’t have any ideas before and probably don’t now, except to raise taxes and coddle the people that would destroy us. The terrorists in the Middle East are celebrating in their tents today! God help us all!

repubs never saw an investigation on Clinton they did not like. They should have thought about it. They have not had ANY oversight of the Bush administration this whole time. So Dubya supporters need to quit whining. After all if he is not guilty of anything he has nothing to worry about… or at least thatis what the repubs used to say. It is a great day to see the fall of a dictator…. sleep well repubs

Go ahead Dems and impeach away!
But good luck getting 16 Republican Senators to vote to convict…in other words, you’re wasting your time.

Thanks to those for reciting Rule #1 from the Republican playbook. By all means necessary, promote the mindless fear and loathing of Democrats everywhere.

When a congressman “William Jefferson” a Democrat is caught red handed accepting bribes the media trys to bury the story. He didnt resign as Foley did but somehow its not a scandel since he was a Democrat, I guess thats expected of this party so its OK.
Thats what we have to look forward to. The Foley story was actually broke last year but the media chose to wait until October this year to cover it (the emails were from two years ago)

Being a member of Congress now means partytime, going to fundraisers, making deals with lobbyists and, every so often, a photo opportunity to show the electorate you are on the job. As Babu quoted Seinfeld, “the wheels are spinning,” yet Babu was still deported. There are a lot of “spinning wheels” and plans by Democrats to grab leadership jobs in Congress now.
As an example of the real world, Jack Abramoff, the famous lobbyist, has yet to be charged with his role in the murder of Gus Boulis, even though Abramoff’s company paid the Mafia killers $200,000 before the murder. The killing happened after Boulis attempted to take back his company, SunCruz Casinos, which Abramoff bought with a bogus $23 million wire transfer down payment.

Who is your editor? Your lead should read Whom will, etc not Who

I’m 54 and cannot remember ever seeing a difference in corruption when one party takes over power from the other. They are two wings of the same bird of prey and both parties serve the same master.
The Dems in charge now will actually work to protect the outgoing war criminals.

Pelosi is already making suggestions of endless investigations of all our countries defenses as the criminals, CIA, Military and all military contractors will be investigated proof the Liberals want to destroy America.

Complaining, arguing, and fighting have gotten us where we are today – nowhere. The people have spoken and their will be done. It amazes me, how much bitterness there is between the two parties. The people voted for change, accept it. I for one am very moderate and not particularly biased in one way or another. We gave one party a shot at turning this country around and it seems that they have not lived up to our expectations. Democrats have now been voted in, and will be given their fair chance at repairing the damage that has been done. My recommendation for most of you, is to stop looking to the past and quarreling over it. It is over and done with. We should all be looking forward and working together to try and do what is right.

Investigating illegal and unconstitutional government actions – as well as corrupt Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld cronies – is not called “payback.”
It is called justice.
There is no reason we the people should give these crooks a pass because they lost the election. They remain crooks.
Finally, democrats (and allies from the other side of the aisle) must investigate and legislate at the same time. If they do not, we risk a repeat of this dismal example of government and malfeasance and corruption.

Funny how Republicans didn’t mind shutting the government down, investigating the Clintons, and creating gridlock in the Nineties. Now, they’re whining about the same tactics. And, by the way, Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, so let’s not talk about ‘War on Terror”, ok? You failed.

The Democrats haven’t even gotten into office yet and the Republicans are already bashing them. It is comical at best that they had 12 years to do something good for the country and at best they improved the lives of the upper 2% of Americans through special tax credits.
The war in Iraq is a disgrace and we should have never stepped foot there. I saw a soldiers post about saying Americans said at the polls they don’t support soldiers. That is such ignorance of the fact this signals that the majority of Americans want the soldiers home. There was never an alQaeda link to Iraq but now there is because we allowed it. Al-qaeda doesn’t need to strike us here because we are providing them plenty of targets in the form of soldiers. What good are we doing in Iraq? We freed them from a dictator, but what did it do for us? Are we going to do that with every dictator in the world? The Republicans and Bush are accountable for the lives lost by the soldiers due to this unjust war.

Several posts about republicans’ greed for money. Are republicans greedy because they want to keep the money they earn or could it be that the democrats are greedy because they want to take money from us hard workers and spend and redistribute as they please?

Dem’s will now reach across the aisle and set the partisan bickering aside. Remember to keep your hands over your wallets while they are reaching across the isles.

Dave
I read your post with great interest. Please take a good look at the national budget percentages. The bulk of our budgets for the last six years have increasingly gone to national defense. Rather inappropriate since a middle eastern war is what bin laden wants. After all, he is an old Afghanistan vet, who thinks that that extensive war with the Soviets bankrupted the USSR. He thinks that a long war with us in the middle east will do the same thing to us, look it up. Keep in mind that the spending on other people’s retirements that you loathe is funded by payroll taxes which are paid mainly by the working and middle classes. Please also note that these payroll taxes have been used since 83 to fund govt operations while the wealthy enjoy massive tax cuts at the income tax level. So, in a sense, payroll taxes paid by workers subsidize the tax obligations of the wealthy. So, follow the bouncing ball here, when you cut social security and medicare, you actually screw over working people for what they paid for, in order to keep defense spending costs from being paid by rich people. Sorry, but that is just not right, and it is in fact terrible policy. At least with Clinton, from day one, he cut the deficit every year and lead us to balanced budgets that the Republican controlled Congress and White House have totally squandered. Again, feel free to look it up, and right wing talk radio does not count as a reputable reference.
J

The republicans showed their true colors–they led us down a dismal path without an end. No help with health care, unprecendented debt, unprecedented corruption and scandal. Now all they can do is whine!
If they are so right, why did they lose? Stop whining and do something good for a change.

Eric is right on base about the importance of oversight. I’m ashamed to say that a great majority of those conservatives denying the need for this are either hypocritical or lacking in education on how our democracy functions. One of the prime functions of our representatives jobs is to exert oversight over the executive – a job they’ve been shirking. Come now, so-called conservatives – It’s about ACCOUNTABILITY. You must be accountable to what you have done, or your ideology is truly morally bankrupt.

Oh what’s the difference anyway? I felt like I was voting for the captain of a ship of fools. Are Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton any more intelligent than Mike DeWine or Conrad Burns? I’ll give credit where due, with 911 and Katrina the Congress has done a fantastic job of keeping the economy afloat. Other than that what politician in the last twenty years has had a really exceptional idea to get spending, taxes, or regulation under control?

It’s Christmas in November, the GOP is so far right they now think they can use this humiliating defeat to threaten the Democrats in 2008? They are nuts! The right thing is to impeach Bush ASAP, then ask for lots of resignations by the other GOP crooks still in power. If the GOP wants whats best for the country they will team up and help with the impeachment only then can move forward and get things done right.

This is a good thing. As the democrats waste theri time with investigations that will in most cases only vindicate their targets, absolutly no changes take place. Just what I expected. In any event, the majority have spoken and it will be my pleasure to watch the walls cave in on them

Contrary to the long-standing assault on Nancy Pelosi’s character from right-wing extemist radio talk show hosts and FOX TV, the electorate will soon learn that she is a fair-minded and accommodative legislator who will conduct herself in the best interests of the country. At the same time, expect her hold Democrats to a high level of ethical conduct. The right wing propogandists will be exposed when the Democrats move forward with plans to solve real problems confronting the vast majority of Americans.

God bless us all. The Terriorst will be on the move now, but not to Iraq but to the big citys of the US. Think God i live in a small town. You big city people, keep an eye out, because i would be very nervous.

A thin Democratic majority coupled with the President’s veto power means that any attempt at “payback” will end in gridlock. Hopefully our representatives will worry about what their real focus should be on — governing. There is a choice to be made. This article points to the wrong one.

I live in the state of Wa. I new this state was backward, but I thought the rest of the country was smarter than that. My senator thinks Osama has done great charity work. People need to stop listening to the left wing media. Do we really want a socialist Government, that is exactly where we are heading. God help us.

Not one Democratic American worth the powder to blowem’ to hell. The Republican Party ceased to exist in the late 90′s when they became as Socialist and corrupt as the Democrats.Am ashamed I served the citizens of this country and will not make that mistake again.

The American people certainly got what they asked for. It reminds me of that famous saying: “Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People In Large Numbers”. Thanks a pant-load.

Shocking how all the republicans are all sour grapes when they have finally lost because they should have lost. This is the most corrupt administration ever. There are many things that are listed that should be investigated. The free pass that the rubber stamp republicans have given Bush has come to a just ended. Yeah!!!!!!

It’s amazing to me that Republican’s are talking about wasting money on investigations and corruption with $8 billion missing in Iraq and scandal after scandal within the party. I don’t believe in revenge, but I do believe in justice!
Go get em Dems!

Looks like Rummy ‘cut and run’…

As a long time Republican, I am seeing my party get just what it deserves. If Emperor Dubya and his Jesus freak wackos had kept their noses out of the personal life of Americans, we would ASSUREDLY still be in control. TRUE: If Allen wasn’t involved in telling us how distasteful he found stem cell research, we would still hold the Senate. His big Jesus Freak mouth lost it for America. I hope the republican bible thumpers get the message from South Dakota: “Keep your noses out of my wife/girlfriend/daughetr’s vagina. It’s none of your goddam business! Don’t like abortion; don’t get one. And your hypocricy about “family values” is a hoot ! Hey Mark, do use Vaseline or KY on the kids when ya’ do ‘em? And poor ol’ Rev. Ted has a hard time keeping that rolled up c-note in his nose when he’s on his knees and elbows taking a BIG hit of meth just before Halleluja Time.
With any luck, Nancy Pelosi will find the time to also investigate Jerry Fallwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson and their ilk and uncover their predelictions to kiddie porn, homosexuality, drug use, etc.

I’m lauginh so hard at some these comments. ACCOUNTABILITY! Read the word, get to know it, soak it in. It’s that time and I hope the Democrats go after those very issues listed above. More heads are going to start rolling soon, grab a seat and watch as the republicans — is taken down. We will not tolerate being lied to anymore! If oyu don’t like it too bad, show up at the election in 08!
No more truthiness we want the TRUTH!

I am a conservative Republican all the way. I belive my party got what it deserved even though I do not agree with the values of the Democrats. You see the Republicans have lost the very values that put them in power so I see it as a wake-up call. I would like to say shame on all you people for all the hate I am seeing here. Are we not all Americans, can we not hold on to the values that made this a great nation. United we can not be stoped but divided we will fall. And let us lose the hate, I mean we have much more in common than I am seeing here.

If the GOP is so clean then they have nothing to hide or worry about.

Don’t people realize that to increase the minimum wage in ANY amount ALSO increases EVERY UNION members base salary/hourly wage automatically. It’s in their UNION contracts to guarantee them a comparable increase every time the minimum wage is increased. That’s why the Democrats cow-tow to the unions, and vice versa.

The nationwide sweep we’ve just seen has happened specifically because Americans are upset with the administration’s policies. The Democrats have specifically said they would be pursuing accountability if they were given this mandate by the people – which they have. But the good news for those who are playing the fear card by saying that the Dems are only out for “revenge”, keep in mind that Pelosi’s 100 hour plan includes among other things, legislation separating lobbyists from legislators, raising minimum wages, allow govt. to negotiate prices for Medicare and enact recommendations made by the 9/11 commission to make America safer.
The Dems have the house, and they almost certainly have the Senate. It’s time to start fixing some of America’s many problems.

Good. Accountability is definitely a good thing. Especially when you consider all the young men and women over there dying while companies like Halliburton (and your Vice President, of course) fatten their wallets. I guess wanting to put a stop to this is more of that “liberal madness” the GOP likes to hold onto like it’s their last dollar. I say go after everybody that has played a part in this charade we refer to as a war. Especially those that have profitted so much from it. But, I guess we should all just forget about all those wrongdoings and just move on. Tell that to Ken Starr.

right on hal.
no way that a republican lame duck president will go along with much of anything the dems try to push through.
the democrats should indeed use these next 2 years to completely expose the
“moral majority” for what they really are.i cant wait and hope they go about that particular task like pitbulls on meth. people who live by the creed “do as we say,not as we do” deserve what they get on judgment day,imo.
i have noticed in general a deep angst in the majority of the whiney republican/conservative posts and truly,truly all you rich republicans best start setting up some overseas bank accounts to hide your big money in ,nancy p.and crew are coming to town!!!

All I have to say is that we got what we deserve. Looks like California and Michigan are going to be the big dogs. We will be at the mercy of their values? I am not looking forward to this “bloodbath” by the kook leftists. It is going to be BAD!!
Jack

America has just become a communist nation

What took Middle America so long to catch on? The rest of the world was on to the republicans a long time ago…

“Defense contractors, including Halliburton, the intelligence rationale for the war in Iraq and CIA secret prisons are what one staffer called “uninvestigated scandals.”
is it me or does that statement make no sense? it’s missing a verb! or, has two subjects..
should it read, “”Defense contractors, including Halliburton, SAY the intelligence rationale for the war in Iraq and CIA secret prisons are what one staffer called “uninvestigated scandals.”" or what? are we to guess?

God save America!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crooks are Crooks. If any one thinks these politians are going to improve our livings standards and our country I have a bridge I can sell you. No, they will continue to live the high life in DC and line their pockets with our money.

As someone sitting in the middle, these comments make me ill. Why don’t the Dems spend the next two years governing? And why don’t the Reps do the same?
Based on all of the comments I’m seeing here, it is time for a REAL third party. If you’re out for revenge, payback, or holding the status quo then you need not apply.
How about a NewAmerica party? Joe? John? Are you listening?

Stop whinning! There needs to be some investigations. A lot of criminal activities have gone on for the past six years. This new broom should sweep very cleanly.
If the public didn’t feel that the country was run into the ground by Repubs, they wouldn’t have thrown the bums out! I can’t wait to see all the skeletons in the closet!

Stupid is as stupid does.
Way to go.
A little history lesson. It was a Democrat-controlled Congress that decided to abandoned free South Vietnam, by cutting off its supplies even of rifle ammunition after the peace treaty signed by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in 1973. It was the Democrat-controlled Congress that ordered all U.S. bombing halted—air strikes that could have made stopped the regular North Vietnamese army, marching openly along the South’s main highways in 1974.
History often repeats itself.

The election was Good News and Bad News.
The bad first: BIG MEDIA won the election for the dems, and will be emboldened in two years.
The good news: Moderate / Conservative Democrats won the day!
We know what is going to happen to the Republicans… NEEDED Re-organization.
More interesting… What is going to happen to the Marxist Wing of the Democratic Party?

I’m a conservative- I think it’s great that the democrats are in- In the next 2 years – they will screw things up so bad- that the next president will be a conservative republican!!!

now the work bewgins…

These people who actions had 3000 Americans killed in vain (and thousands Iraqis as well) need to go to prison. To “waste time on hearings” as some suggest here, is simply to invite it to happen again and let them enjoy the billions they’ve stolen… JAIL ‘EM ALL.

Through all of the words that have been thrown out here, I still don’t see how life is going to get better. Really, how did Halliburton getting a contract to rebuild an oil well in Iraq impact me in a negative way? That is just an example, but I really can’t see how my taxes going up, just so I can support a prasitic part of society makes my life better. The scum/garbage of humanity that sits around watching others be productive, waiting with their hands out drives me crazy. I know people (regardless of race, anyone who brings race or origin into this is just deflecting the issue, this is universal) with huge plasma tvs in their house, on welfare. I don’t have that and I work my guts out. We have created a whole layer of pathetic humans that do nothing more than breath, eat, steal kill and harm others, and VOTE. And that is why the Dems love them.

I agree that the titling of the story is somewhat irresponsible. However I would point out that after the last six years of single party incompetent and corrupt rule that included freezing out the opposition totally, the few republicans left standing deserve everything they’re going to get. And just like MOST AMERICANS HAVE REPUDIATED the small-brained “conservatism” that was sold widely to those easily fooled by simple marketing (“send $100 and I’ll say the tenfold prayer over your check”), MOST AMERICANS WANT TO SEE PAYBACK.
My first choice would be Rove and the vote supressors… but I suspect he’s well-insulated.
No more messin’ around. A lot of people belong in jail, and it’s time for the accountability train to pull into the station and start loading up. Destination: Club Fed.

This country is in serious trouble,Republicans and Democrats are at each others throats, immogration is totally out of control,the news media is one sided. Got a news flash for all you people, ALL POLITICIANS ARE CROOKS, they work for there own agendas, the middle class is constently sold down river, I am truly affraid of what is yet to come. This is a truly divided country.
Thanks Politicians,Lawyers,Media, You done a great job!!!

It’s funny how the Democrat posters blast the Republicans for thinking only of their wallets, but always bring up the raise the minimum wage, and free health care issues. The Republicans want to be able to keep the money they make from getting better paying jobs, and the Democrats just want to be given more money for doing entry level no skill jobs, and free medical. Hmm so very interesting.

I guess the meek shall inherit the earth after all…
That’s okay, we’ll get hit again and the spineless libs will come running back to us to do the heavy lifting, of course after they realize that you cant negotiate with terror.
As a former Marine I’m almost offended, The libs want us to do our jobs and keep them safe and in the same breath they question the manner in which we provide this. Have fun Hippies…you deserve it! We’ll be waiting!

The reactionary comments on this board are frightening. Anyone calling the new Congressional agenda Socialist-Communist doesn’t live in the real world. Bush and his Party have out spent
all previous administrations, growing the goverment to an extraorinary size, while prosecuting ineptly the so-called ‘war on terror’, squnadering worldwide good-will we garnered after 9/11, not to mention lives and national treasure in Bush’s war in Iraq.
Get a grip on reality people. Most of the new Dems elected to Congress are moderate to conservative.

The worst part about all of the nasty back and forth Democrat/Republican BS here, is that it’s just a mirror of what the real politicians do for a living. I think we should get rid of all of them and have a blind election where you don’t know the name or party of the candidate, just their views and plans. Maybe we could get one of the online dating services to put something together.

may we please give the Dixie Chicks a break now that the Republicans can’t scare you anymore?

we’ve gotten through worse.

How can anyone back the Republicans anymore? They are for big government, have borrowed more money from foreign governments (China) in the last 6 years than in the combined history of the United States, conservative spending?!?!?! Have you seen the debt? Lower taxes? Sure, I’m saving a few hundred dollars a year- and that $300 check was totally awsome. . Religious right? Just look who is running it. Do you really think abortion will be overturned? Stem cell research for the betterment of mankind stopped? Republicans have lost their way. All they can do is focus on the terrorist attack of five years ago that happened on their watch and use it as an excuse to pad their already overflowing wallets. The corruption has to end and hopefully this election will do it.
By the way, Rummy’s resignation the day after election day? Slimey. They should have shown some real leadership and dumped him before the election.

Mr. Bush, this loss is a personal message to you: LISTEN!

funny how the republicans keep chanting the mantra about “tax and spend liberals” the way I see it is that we’ve had nothing but republicans in office and the deficit has risen to record levels. who’s going to pay this off ~ that’s right, you and I…thanks to the “tax and spending republicans” so let’s get off of this fantasy that it’s the democrats that tax and spend.

I say let the Democrats be Democrats. That’s all it took for the Republicans to sweep both houses of congress. From time to time the American people have to be reminded of how bad things can get. Two years of nothing but Democrat “investigations” should just about do it.

I can’t believe all the America hating bile from the right. Why are Republicans are so vocally attacking our democratically elected Congress and Senate? Can’t they see that this just simply emboldens our enemies abroad. Why do they hate America so much?

What is going on a here? Just a bunch of whining about democrats? If the republicans would have done anything in the last few years besides run up the debt and defend bush the Democrats might not be in power now. But, since the Republicans are masters of wasting money and resources, here come the Dems to fix everything again.
Grow up people

WOW!, I’m sooo tired after reading this blog. Maybe if all the hatred was aimed at our enemies…..hmmmmm.

Republicans have lost their luster and passion. They have become soft and a little too self serving. They deserved to have the challeger take them down. The challenger however will be exposed as a “paper tiger” at the expense of the American people. This is not a good time in History for this to happen.

Tax and spend liberals? How about borrow and spend Republicans. I ask you, which is worse? This group running the country wanted nothing to do with fiscal conservatism. You can’t blame that on the democrats. Is it any wonder so many conservatives (myself included) bailed on the republican party?

To: “Posted by: Michael | Nov 8, 2006 3:37:09 PM”
If you actually believe the statement you just wrote here then you are obviously clueless or trying to promote a new form of democratic propaganda.
It is common knowledge that the conservatives are for safety and security of our country while liberals want to coddle and cuddle with this country’s enemies.

Who in the House will man-up and take on Pelosi? That’s what I thought, none to be found. Go ahead. Let her run amuck. Hillary will be running from the Dems as fast as most Republicans did of George Bush. Moreover, the fickle electorate will flop yet again for adult leadership.

Sorry guys, you don’t get it. Massive borrowing is a tax increase. You will be paying this one back for many years to come. It is now up to $8 trillion and counting, thanks to the borrow and spend Republicans.

I wonder why the children of the American society are so screwed up. Name calling, back biting, telling lies, only interested in their personal agenda, wanting to take someone elses’ money and spend it willy-nilly, cannot get a real job! Oh waite…those are the politicians!
THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE “PROFESSIONAL” POLITICIANS, YOU ARE EXCELLENT TEACHERS AND OUR CHILDREN ARE SUCH GOOD “LEARNERS”.

If The Dems raise the min. wage I will just lay the people of and work more hours myself

“It is a dark day. I really worry about my children. Liberals have no morals.”
Wont someone think of the children! Who will teach them what is right and wrong now Haggard, Foely, Limbaugh, DeLay etc etc etc etc are no longer shining the bright light of conservative family values on America!

Boy, did my heart fall when I read this morning that NP was on target to be Madame Speaker. Ever since there has been a smidgen of a hint that the Left would take over at least the House, Madame has been stating from Day One that she would “make sweeping changes”. Well, I can’t WAIT to see those…tax increases, illegal aliens getting the same benefits as American citizens, pro-abortion laws allowing teen-age girls without parental approval getting abortions, defense allocations cut so much that our soldiers (overseas especially) go without basic living allowances and have to go on Welfare (which by the way whose numbers will increase and the middle working class will have to pay more for), borders open “for all to share in America”, allowing the terrorists to come in again (have we forgotten 9/11 so quickly?). Let’s see how long it takes Madame to close the bi-partisian efforts and renege on campaign promises. Look at the names of those likely to get Chairman jobs at the beginning of this article. “D-Calif” – come ON!5 out of 7 were from the same state as Madame! And the Left says that Republicans play favorites…I wonder what will be left for my sons’ futures after the Left gets done with America…

Nancy Pelosi “a fair-minded and accommodative legislator who will conduct herself in the best interests of the country”?
Nancy Pelosi went on 60 Minutes and called the President of the United States an incompetent boob.
I wouldn’t even call someone like that “a fair-minded and accommodative…” neighbor! How is anyone supposed to work with somebody like that?

Is there any evidence that raising the minimum wage actually causes layoffs? No, didn’t think so. More Republican propoganda.

As the late, great Jackie Gleason said ” How sweet is is ! “…and as for you right wing nutjobs; “freedom fries anybody? “

Now will Nancy be able to oust Jefferson and his frozen cash?

G.O.P. Grand Oil Party….Well guess what? The party is over.

I really hope that the comments to this post don’t reflect the true feelings of average Americans, but sadly I think they might. So many people have fallen prey to the “us vs. them” mentality that political parties have forced on us. These bogus “liberal” and “conservative” labels make you all hate your neighbors simply because of a political party affiliation, when if you sat down and talked about things, you’d probably agree on more than you think. This crap is propagated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and company. I guess hate creates good ad rates. With these kind of attitudes, we might as well be Shiites and Sunnis fighting a civil war on the streets of Iraq.

The dem’s have a duty to investigate this corrupt administration. they need to stay moderate for all of us independant voters, but if they dont go after the repubs, they will lose in 2008 anyway.
the repubs have had this coming for a very very long time. its time to pay the piper! asking for mercy wont work.

If this war was about “Blood for oil” why is it that the troops didn’t just capture the oil fields, set up secure convoys to the nearest port, send in a couple of fleets to protect American oil tankers and suck that country dry? Why did we worry about elections if it was all about oil? Why did we rebuild schools, water treatment plants, get rid of garbage on the streets if it was all about the oil? Can any of you Democrats tell me how this was “Blood for oil”??

Thanks heavens we have some accountability back in government instead of billions of dollars to oil companies and Haliburton.
Today is a great day for this country, we kicked the criminals out of office.

Stupid people…nothing will change. We need to get rid of both parties and all politicians and start over…

This is why I have advocated an alternate candidate choice on every ballot, for every candidate, labeled “none of the above”.
If “none of the above” wins the election, then everyone who ran for that position needs to drop out of the race and new candidates should replace them. This process will repeat until a clear winner is chosen.
I firmly believe that if we had this “vote of no confidence” ability, we would eliminate the good ol’ boy network on both sides of the aisle, and get some genuine representatives of the people who are working for the people, and not for their respective parties.
I got sick of seeing all the “Vote for Me, because the other guy is a creep” TV ads. I don’t want to vote for You if You are just as bad. Give me some new alternatives.
The Republicans blew it – now the Dems are in control. Personally, I gained a tremendous amount of respect for Joe Lieberman because he had the guts to stand up for what he believes, and allowed the will of the people to speak for him. We need more politicians like Joe.

You know, for all the left wing nuts who don’t believe there is a war on terror, I hope it comes back home. I hope some allah-crazed jihadi climbs to the top of the trans-america pyramid and sets off a suit case nuke. Apparently 3,000 dead on 9/11 isn’t enough to get upset about.

To all the Republicans:
It’s not the TAXING; it’s the SPENDING. You’ve been sold a bill of goods that taxing is the issue, not spending. (Oh, no. The Democrats will raise taxes!) Bush has spent like a drunken sailor (even putting aside the war); in that sense, he is not a real conservative.
When the public sector (government) borrows money, it pulls away available funds from the private sector (businesses and households). The private sector has to bid higher for remaining funds by a willingness to pay more interest. So public borrowing drives up interest rates. This becomes a form of a “tax” we all pay now (higher interest).
The other effect of being a borrower nation instead of a lender nation is that the trade value of the dollar falls. This is another form of “tax” as it hurts trade.
So we do pay. Plus at some point all this borrowing has to be paid for, so it’s the next generation that will be hurt economically. (Remember when Bush 1 said “Read my lips: No new taxes” and then saw Reagan’s borrowing had done to us and realized he had to raise taxes.)
I think “pay as you go” — unless it is truly for real investment spending — roads, utilities, etc. — and not consumption spending — is the honorable way to go. To bad, Republicans don’t get that.

Someone has to keep both Democrats and Republicans accountable. The problem has been that Republicans have thought that they are not answerable to anyone, even the Americans whom they were supposed to serve. The Dems have to do this payback stuff to help end corruption here. Hopefully Republicans can do the same to Democrats and the parties will keep each other in check.

Well we asked for it now here it comes, this is going to be great for the American people. I can only imagine what the next 2 years will be like, now Bush will truly have to lead us out of the mess. I can’t wait for 08′.

I have decided, that the first to be laid off due to my increased labor costs (increased minimum wage) will be the liberals in my company. And they know who they are, have already started looking for new job.

If Republicans think low taxes and big spending are “fiscally responsible” I’m beginning to understand why credit card debt, house repossessions and bankruptcies are at an all time high! Just because Bush Jr. enjoyed free lunches all his life doesn’t mean it’ll rub off on you.

The one thing that is funny in all of the threatened “investigations” is that Nancy Pelosi’s husband is not on the list. Rumors abound concerning his odd financial dealings.

To all you greedy business owners who are going to lay-off all your workers because they are going to be paid a fair wage, I think you are doing them a favor.
What a greedy bunch of pigs, you who are so concerned about making sure you can maintain your bloated life style that they would fire these employees for getting a stinking dollar or two more an hour.
I hope after you fire them all your business goes under and your trophy wife finds another sucker with a big wallet to leach off.
Truth is I don’t believe half of what the righties who post here say anyway, most of them are probably a bunch of spoiled grad students still living at home waiting for their rich parents to die so they can inherit the family jewels, I don’t most of you have worked an honest day in your life.

All of these people that hate Pres Bush must really hate FDR. After all FDR did far worse things than Bush ever did or would be allowed to do.
Such as placing American citizens in concentration camps, creating a Dept of censorship, and executing German soldiers without a trail by jury.
The left considers Bush to be the devil, yet they consider FDR to be an angel.

You are looking at this thing all wrong, The Dems are not worried about higher taxes, losing the war and terror attacks in the U.S. because now they have the congress to support them, and being the Repubs. are the only ones that seem to not be on Welfare now, we get to pay the bills.

Lower taxes creates greater revenue to the government. Higher taxes allows Democrats to redistribute the money to others, money you worked hard for.

this is just like politics of Germany in 1930—when will we ever learn?

Democrats and Republicans. We’re all AMERICANS. The greatness of these United States is ahead of us. We will continue to be the light that others will follow.

Why do people decide today that the country is in trouble? Give it a chance…remember the 90′s the Republicans were mad anytime Clinton used the military corrective action against Saddam or Bin Laden, saying we shouldn’t have done that…now that the Dems say it, why are Republicans complaining?
In the end, the country lives on. We should rally around and hope the Dems do well, but if they don’t, then the next election will be another shift.
The consequence of not having these shifts in balance of power are regimes such as Iraq had (remember Saddam was elected last time by 99.9% of the population).
So for Dems it stunk for a while, now the Reps it will for a while…but enjoy the roller coaster…they’re fun to ride.

Face it we will be taxed. The credit for my two kids will be gone. I make more than 50k so I am loaded. This country is full of little kids. We (GOP) lost. That’s it. We had a lot of weak people running. Not all, but a lot. I don’t look forward to the next couple of years but what can we do. Whine like the Dems did. Won’t work. Washington never wanted the US to be a two party system. Yet that is what we have. Lets work with it. If in two years nothing happens, well then vote out the people responsible not the party. Sooner or later they might get what we are trying to say. If not, then run for office yourself. I am sure we as average people can do better (MR Smith goes to Washington). So lets just do what’s best for the US not a specific party. Both sides need to stop the whining. It is so old. This is a baby-boomer mentality. We are better. Far better then that. United we stand, devided we fall. Lets not end up like the Romans

When you have no answers to the serious problems your country faces like terrorism, run away entitlement costs, war in Iraq, etc. this is what you do. They are choosing party above country to set themselves up for the 2008 presidential election. The saddest part is that they’ve lost the ability to even distinguish the two. As every cloud has a silver lining, I believe Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid will in the not to distant future be regarded the Republicans’ saviors.

Accountability is the word not payback. I fully expect justice to prevail. If crimes were committed the guilty must pay. If your worried about the money spent for investigations, you should have worried sooner when Haliburton was stealing our taxes. Would you rather get a $600 tax break but have to pay $5,700 between increases in insurance, homeowners taxes and gas price increase or have to pay $600 more in taxes and receive a discount in the other areas? I choose the latter. Hooray for the Dems.

The Rep’s made their bed and now are paying the price for dismissing their core values. The Dems have a lot of work to do but I suspect they lack a game plan and vision to move forward. How will this ship be righted – by focusing on what made it sink in the first place? The Dems need to remember that much of what transpired during Dubya’s watch had it’s origin before his time. They must be prepared to dropped the hammer equally if they are to be believed.

The dems are for economic equality. Therefore, I choose to be George Soros’ equal. Where do I pick up my check? Marxist morons.

I don’t know what I’m more troubled by: the consequences of the election or the idea that ALL of you leaving these comments are the future of America.

When the terriorist come to our shores because of the democrats polices, I want all dems to look at their hands and notice the blood on them

I am especially amused by all of the right-winger who are moaning about “petty investigations” to be launched by the Democrats and how vindictive and a waste of time and money and blah, blah, blah. Hey, I got one word for you: Whitewater.
Its funny, how when your in the majority its all about getting down to the truth and then once you lose the majority investigations become all about pettiness and revenge.
See you in 2008 you red state losers.

Wow, lots of ignorance on both sides. Listen to the independent. A bunch of porkbarrel corrupt spenders were replaced with a bunch of porkbarrel corrupt spenders. The only difference is that the new bunch are going to allow the terrorists more freedom to attack us here, collect more taxes from the working folk, make us pay for bankrupt soc security and illegals’ and gay spouses’ benefits, enforce eminent domain in favor of their ultra-rich contributors, dilute the future vote with illegals becoming citizens, and make sure lots of lawyer contributors get lots of business with wasted ‘investigation’ time. The last one stinks most because the same Dems that were in the intelligence committees already knew the truth years ago – 500WMDs were found in Iraq after the UN invaded it to enforce 17 violated Security Council edicts, nuclear research was ongoing, and they trained the al-quaida suiciders. Check the intelligence published docs, they have been lying to us for years, about this and the economy, which is about the best it’s ever been. Oh, your kids’ $300 sneakers cost more than his schoolbooks? Poor baby. the govt will subsidize them now!

Do I see these clueless, foaming at the mouth republicans saying that the democrats are out for revenge? And also that they should concentrate on the war on terror instead of going after the war profiteers? Do these people think that if we slaughter enough Iraqis they will love us and not want to be terrorists anymore? How do you win the war on terror if all the US is doing is making The Muslim countries hate us more? Do these thick skulled people actually think that the terrorists that they speak of are going to get scared and stop what trying to hurt us if we turn their country into hell on earth? Or do these egocentric morons think that the terrorists should love us for the 600,000+ Iraqis we have slaughtered because it was a favor to them? Wake up you self righteous republicans and try to think with your brain for once instead of your ego. You can’t win the war on terror by making Muslims hate us more than they do now. These corrupt war profiteers should all be behind bars and be responsible for their actions. The US is finally coming out of their media induced coma, Thank God

Hooray! A new day has dawned and the despots that have mortgaged our childrens future for profit will pay.

There’s nothing scary about yesterday’s election. The people have spoken and the chickens have come home to roost. If the Democrats abuse their power in a similar fashion as the Republicans, then their judgement day will come in two years.
What is frightening are these comments, a bunch of sore losers pointing fingers in every direction. It’s called Democracy and the system works. The masses were unhappy with the direction of our government and cast their votes against it.
All I hope is that every politician – past, present and future – was listening. The message was loud and clear. What a great day for the people of United States!

I urge all of you to read “Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class” by Thom Hartmann. You will see how the Republican party has been taken over by Neo-Cons who are dismantling the very programs used to create a strong middle class in order to further enrich themselves and their friends. Are any of you familiar with Thomas Paine? He inspired the Founding Fathers who believed that you cannot have a true democracy without a middle class and that the only way to create a middle class was through progressive taxation. There is a name for government of by and for the corporation – it’s called Fascism. We need to go back to a simpler time when the super rich (my haven’t they grown in number) were taxed their fair share the way we’ve been doing for centuries up until Reagan. We need to repeal NAFTA and CAFTA and go back to placing tariffs on imports so that we can keep our jobs in this country. We need to take the single payer healthcare system that we already have called Medicare and make it available to all regardless of age so that healthcare once again becomes a right and not a privelege. Privitization doesn’t work. When health insurers were non-profit and the goverment was in charge medical care cost much less. Now we have the costliest healthcare system in the world and much of America is without health insurance. Democrats are not anti-business we just want a fair playing field. The Founding Fathers called for separation of church and state but did you know that they also called for separation of business and state?

[i]What’s petty about a $500 billion dollar war that killed 10 times the number of civilians as Saddam Hussein did, orchestrated by a crew with no military experience that would rather pass that duty on to somebody else’s families?[/i]
Let’s be perfectly clear about something. It’s not our soldiers or the administraion killing innocent civilians on a daily basis with their car bombs and IED’s. It’s the same terrorists that killed over 3000 people on 9-11. That’s what amazes me about liberals. They see US as the evil ones rather than the TRUE evil ones who are actually killing those people.

The Dems first order of business will be to figure out how we can leave Iraq with our tails between our legs, so we can say we lost. This is because they’ll promote it as Bush’s war and they will see that as a benefit towards their presidential aspirations in ’08. Are they unpatriotic enough to think this way? This bunch? Are you kidding? OF COURSE they are. The only real Democrats left are in the Republican party these days. I feel bad for our soldiers.

It is hilarious that the neocons are whining about, “hide your money, the Dems are going to take it away.”
Interesting that you don’t mind and haven’t for 6 years of bush wasting your money. Where are all those billions that have been “misplaced?”
You slobbering crybabies need to realise Americans are sick of the corrupt neocon agenda. It’s your fault…deal with it.
I remember in 94 when the neocons took over Congress all you could talk about was payback against Democrats but now when it’s your turn you are sniveling little cowards…deal with it.
This is what happens when you are corrupt.
Paybacks a bitch. lol

Lot’s of sick, demented, mentally ill liberals out there. They believe in free speech, only if it’s liberal speech. Prominent conservative speakers have to have bodyguards or are in danger of getting pies thrown in their faces as they speak on stage.
The liberals never forsake nor forgive. It’s been 12 years gone and many need a lesson as to why they were thrown out in 1994.
They finally gain power, and they seek revenge?
Hang on to your wallet America!!

It is hard to believe we have irresponsible people running our government, both Democratic and Republican. I am truly ashamed of these individuals as they expose their childish mannerisms and fight like third graders. I say to them, “Grow up and do the job we pay you to do”. I’ve had my fill of arguments among our elected officials as well as the use of my money to further their own careers. It is obvious as to why America is gaining more lack of respect around the world than ever before. I see correlations in the actions of members of congress to leaders of third world countries.

This is the best possible thing to happen to the Republican party. Hopefully we will find our CONSERVATIVE roots once again. The Denocrats have done nothing but sit back and complain and do a LOT of armchair quarterbacking. Now is the time for them to prove it. With people such as Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (all of whom 60% of voters couldn’t pick out of a line up) running their party we Republicans have NOTHING to worry about in 08 and beyond.
Congrats Komrades make Karl Marx proud!

anybody besides me notice how most of the people slandering Democrats here are inarticulate and semi-literate? Guess it goes with supporting an administration run by liars, mass murders and international war criminals.

If you thought the country is bad now, Its about to get worse.

I don’t usually comment on political topics because I believe it is a waste of time, but this event is interesting so let’s see where this rolls.
Obviously this is not a good day for the Republicans (a collective “no duh” comes from the crowd). There may be some traction on their end, though.
1: I don’t have a personal problem with Rumsfeld, but this election is really the writing on the wall for him (another “no duh” emits), and if the news is anything to go by he can see it too. To be honest this has been some baggage for the last two or three years, and some new blood may bump Bush and the Republicans up in the polls. Not like it matters for him, as he cannot run for Prez in ’08, but it might give him some coattails to help push a Republican presidential canidate and help get back some Senate and Congressional seats.
2: A number of the Democratic wins where through conservatives in their own party. This shows that the public at large is still more willing to vote for conservatives than liberals/leftists. If the Republicans make some positive hay in the next two or four years (possibly by focusing on immigration), this could get them back in the country’s good graces. The Democrats may also have problems controlling the flow with this somewhat more mixed party than before, at least innitally so expect a lot of give and take for now.
3: “Liberal” Republicans like McCain are probably not affected by these results much, if at all (ironcally because they were outside the main flow of the party for so long). They will still be operating at 100% for the forseeable future, so look for them to sway some votes from the other side of the asile.

gwb will get what he is due no less no more

The disscourse in America makes me sick. Dems and GOPs bickering reminds me children arguing over toys. As I look around America, I hear it’s voice and realize that there is nothing constructive left, just a bunch of vultures fighting over a carcass. It’s shameful. I worry for our youth.

I guess the last laugh is two Supreme Court appointments

come on Dems. for once think of the people and do something right.

1. The pursuit and administration of Justice, looked at one point of time will always seem unnecessary. Killing a murder will never bring anyone back, so why bother? All politicians need to be reminded that there are consequences, let’s just hope they don’t go too overboard…
2. When one party runs the show for 12 years, bad things are going to happen. Arrogance is inherent in our nature, especially when we feel that nothing can touch us. This change will be healthy.
3. Name-calling sheep on both sides should have their voting priviledges revoked. In fact, you shouldn’t ever take a side. It makes you feel like a part of the group and thus is subject to all the self delusion at which we humans are amazing adept.
4. Quit buying into the polarization of America. We’re much more similar than they want us to think (Atlantic monthly has had a some good articles on this). Polarization only serves to make sure we keep two parties in power.
5. The dow finished up today. If you are dumb enough to believe all your money is going to vanish, then it probably will. If not, then it probably won’t.

I guess for all the chickenhawks postinghere corruption is ok… as long as you are a corrupt Republican and no one can call them to the carpet for their misdeeds.
Didn’t the repubs spend around 14 million investigating oral sex between consenting adults to set a perjury trap all the while looking the other way while terrorists were plotting to attack New York?
Now that we want an investigation into the actions of the Grand Old Pedophiles, all the chickenhawks start clucking their opposition…
Now of course they want “civil” discourse and bipartisanship. Funny how yesterday they could care less about civility and bipartisanship.
Once the investigations start and the rocks under which the criminal perverts are hiding under finally see the light of day, will all of you chickenhawks be standing up to defend their actions or will this be Bill Clinton’s fault as well?
How about you shut the hell up and sit back to watch what happens when all of the corrupt reppub cockroaches start running for cover.

Here’s a concept, work together to make this country a better place for our children!!!

Democrats will not pursue impeachment of Bush. No, we are much smarter than that. Democrats will investigate the corruption and waste of tax payers money within the Bush Administration. He will be exposed to the world. This will insure a Democratic President in 2008.

Some really good people ran in this election. One had Oreo(tm) cookies thrown at him. A fine example of statesmanship don’t you think? (Good God people; Steele would have been asset to this country no matter what party he was affiliated with.)
Neither side really ran on actual events or issues.
Both sides ignored corruption to hold onto coveted seats in committees–both sides. The egos in Washington have been way out of control for a long time. As a Republican, I say it is time to purge the party of anyone who has even a hint of stink to them. Then get the rest of them a spine.

I haven’t heard this much whining and crying since Clinton was in office. I am going to invest in shares of Kleenex. Socialists in power? So how is subsidizing the oil and tobacco industries not socialism please someone tell us all? That said, if there are endless useless investigations I promise to help vote them out which is kind of an empty promise since I live in Utah where socialism is banned and the democrats are republicans…lol

What is funny to me is that now the Socialists ie(Democrats) are going to investigate the president for using the same intelligence that Bill Clinton and a bunch of his Democrat Senate buddies used to attack Iraq in 1998. HMMMM, wonder if they will impeach Clinton also for lying about that intelligence. To head off those of you who think this can be done, a president can be impeached at any time, even when he is out of office.
Also, to my fellow Republicans, this election was not a bad thing. We are going to get once and for all the exposing of what these people really are, a bunch of socail elitests who think we are too stupid to run our own lives and can only survive if people like them tell us what to do!!!!

Well, you liberals have finally done it. You have handed over a victory to the Islam-o-fascists. Look for a blood bath in Iraq. If you cringe at over 3000 troop killed in 5 years what will you say to another 3000 in a couple of months.

Congratulations to the Democrats, they won the House and possibly the Senate.
As a conservative Republican I hated to see it but we lost.
Now the ball is in their court and I just hope they will do what right for our country and not what good for the Party

Guess it is time for the Dems to also prove they cannot conduct responsible , constitutionally limited governing either. Since neither side is fit to run this country, makes one wonder why voters keep electing two wolves to tend the sheep. We the sheeple had better wake up, fast!

Congratulations America for voting in true patriots who will investigate the criminals who have been running your country into the ground for the past 6 years. Everyone who has lied and deceived the people about this phoney war on terror and illegal invasion of Iraq and the deaths of your fine fighting men and women deserves time in jail. The profiteers and carpet baggers who rip off the public purse while people die needlessly should be tarred and feathered. Relax Republican losers-it is possible to carry out investigations of the corrupt, hold them accountable and run government business at the same tim. Just because the incompetant bunch who have been in charge to date can’t chew gum and think at the same time, doesn’t mean others are the same. Arise America-your freedoms are about to be restored !

It’s like rooting for your favorite football team…
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Could the truth be, that it’s really a contest for our Freedom, Vs. the Politicians (mostly lawyers) on BOTH sides that are using their pet excuse to grab power and money (freedom and property) from US???
One thing history tells us about freedom is…
Once it’s gone…. it’s GONE!
Just damn!

Part of restoring balance and accountability to the oldest democracy in the world will require some amount of investigation of the bad acts of the previous government, who could not bring itself to check its own members excesses and hold its partisan hijinx in check.
That said, investigations should be kept to the minimum necessary to see justice done in broad strokes. The worst offenders should be jailed, and then we should move on, both parties’ members chastised by the punishment metted upon the uncovered corrupt. Examples must be made, but so must strong policy for the future.

Hey Dave, in reference to your observation that Liberals don’t use their full name when blogging, well if you read my comment not only did I use my full name, but my initial as well. I did notice you omitted your full name. Funny huh.

What is all this talk about the democrats being equal to communists? The definition of Communism is one party rule; which the republicans have had for the last six years. Do you think it’s coincidence that they’re call “Red” states?

Fear mongers are at it again. Except this time it will not work.

Why did Republicans lose?
Clinton giving North Korea nuclear secrets. no investigation.
Splitting our intel between CIA and FBI: no investigation.
Secrets given to China.
no investigation.
Sandy Berger caught red handed with documents leading up to 9/11.
no investigation.
Germany and France caught red handed in conspiracy with Saddam.
no investigation.
Ted Kennedy undermining U.S. elections with Russia.
no investigation.
Saddam’s top General admits they had weapons of mass destruction and hid them in Syria.
no investigation. And I could go on. But the point is THEY ARE COVERING FOR EACH OTHER. WAKE UP.
ITS WE THE PEOPLE AGAINST THEM. Democrats don’t need to have a plan because their plan is to bash the other side. So now its bash fest for our tax dollars because its revenge for Clinton, plain and simple. Then the Republicans will go soft because they are afraid of their image. Democrats power comes from bashing and money. Screw the kids, screw ALL the people.

Didn’t the repubs spend around 14 million investigating oral sex between consenting adults to set a perjury trap all the while looking the other way while terrorists were plotting to attack New York? “previous poster”
yup thats about the size (and smell) of it…

The Dems have an opportunity to show what they’re made of. It’s either get busy helping the country or waste the next couple of years pointing fingers. The Repubs wasted their opportunity. Hope it isn’t deja vu all over again with the Dems.

>if democrats waste the next two years on petty revenge, in two years they will get voted out.
The key word is “if.” If they play their cards right we’ll be able to finish the job and get rid of the rest of the neo-cons.
>Shame on those who abandoned the Republicans.
They abandoned us when they preached “family values” which turned to be those of corruption, lies and pedophlia.

Investigations will be good. Since nearly all of the allegations made by Democrats have proven false as time went on (Rove was the source behind Novak, Blair lied, Bush lied, etc.) it will be good to clear the air and let everyone go forward without the false accusations.
Especially, I want to see the pre war intelligence investigation where they show that Bush lied, Blair lied, Putin lied, Hans Blix lied, French Intelligence lied and on and on.
Go ahead, make my day. See, Bush isn’t running for election anymore. He doesn’t have to get anything passed. But, the Demo’s are running again and if they haven’t got Bush to sign anything in law and do nothing, they WILL be voted out in two years.
Like when the Demo’s pulled the manuever and took over the Senate in 2001. It only lasted 18 months before they were thrown out.

It is a tough call for the dems. If there was real corruption and trumpted up evidence presented to the American people, it should come out.
Just to do it to “get back” is counterproductive.
Also my legitimate concern is the oppositions political hit job.

It blows my mind how some Americans can be so blind to the growing threat that is converging with Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Have they not seen the media from the Middle East? Iran’s President and fellow leaders have made it clear that their singular goal is to wipe Israel and the US off the map in the name of Allah. Wake up people! Iraq is just a beachhead to a much greater conflict that has been brewing since before the 70′s. Democrats deny this reality and are therefore dangerous. What will it take? Another attack on our soil?

Where do all these commenters come up with their regurgitated rhetoric with what Democrats are all about? Wah wah wah. They’re gonna tax people. They don’t care about us. Scary liberals want revenge!
Get a grip on reality, people. Government oversight does not equal revenge. No one who voted for them wants revenge — they want accountability, something that Republicans conveniently have left by the wayside.

odd, but I see no comments here from democrats concerning international terror. i think that perhaps they are underestimating the threat.

Gawddddd … please don’t let there be these pompous blowhards and their agonizingly endless self-aggrandizing investigations.

wow, i didn’t read all of these comments but you people have really bought into the whole ‘my party is righteous and yours is the downfall of civilization’ bit
grow up

Hmmm, Do I smell another American Civil War brewing???

What will be the consequences of the election?
Will the terrorists be emboldened?
Will you be better off after the terrorists reevaluate their strategy?
Do you think you will be exempt of any suffering they inflict?
Are you proud to be a citizen of a country that has repeatedly abused it’s allies, of a country that can’t be trusted?
Do you think Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan could have accomplished what they did, with a population like the one in 2006?
Did they make the USA a better place?
Will the Democrats (2006) make the USA a better place?
We’ll see what the consequences are. You personally will be affected by the consequences, and if you participated, be aware that you made your own bed.

2007
watch the democrats expose themselves and have it all blow up in their faces

To all those saying the Dems should concentrate on winning the “war on terror”:
You can’t win a “war on terror” anymore than you can win a war on drugs. How do you define victory in a “war on terror”? When all the terrorists are dead?!

As an American first. I am discouraged at the election results.
Republicans earned the loss of influence. Failure to be true to your core principles – small government, fiscal responsibility, ethical responsibility, social conservatism, recognizing individual capacity to grow and prosper and a strong belief in core values of honesty, respect, and a willingness to fight for same said values. Recognition that values are not relative but real, tangible and permanent. Willingness to look ahead, see the positive in people.
Did the Democrats earn the role they now enjoy? No.
I have little use for people who thrive on tearing others down to advance themselves. It is not a value to be admired in our political leaders and it sets a tone for the rest of society – blame others for your lack of ideas and worse lack of true character. Go ahead be vindictive, fully utilize your authority to quash those that don’t agree with you – because you can regardless of the good of society and the country as a whole. Is that not the true meaning of tolerance, understanding and wisdom.

Why is it everyone wants to impeach the Pres for misleading into war when he got the info from the Democrats about Iraq and his weapons program? Was Clinton’s eight years a god send to this people or are you just blind and he did absolutely nothing wrong except sell weapons secrets to China for campaign funds, committed adultery in the people’s house and had numerous affairs etc etc. Yup the model Pres he was.

“Thanks heavens we have some accountability back in government instead of billions of dollars to oil companies and Haliburton.
Today is a great day for this country, we kicked the criminals out of office.”
Posted by: RealityCheck
LoLoLoLoLoLoLoLoL!!!!!!!
Reality check, indeed!
You a writer for Jay Leno, or what?

Dems Win, Terrorist and America Haters celebrate, enough said.

It’s not about revenge. It’s about holding Republicans accountable for their actions. This was never supposed to be a one party system or a dictatorship. Hopefully there will now be much needed accountability and a return of a balance of power to our government.

IT’S NOT ABOUT PARTISAN PAYBACK.
It’s about accoutablility. It’s about righting wrongs and learning from our mistakes. It’s about reining in war profiteers. It’s about restoring our constitutional rights. It’s about restoring this nation’s squandered opportunities for promoting peace and justice.
DON’T trivialize investigative hearings. They are vital for healing this fractured nation.

Can one Dem name one positive issue that your party ran on. Even Bill Clinton admitted that it was less pro-Dems and more anti-Bush

Oh my, what concerns me most after reading all the posts above is not the vitriol, condemnation or hate speech being spewed by an awful lot of people purporting to be Americans, no, what concerns me most is the ignorance of reality. Even simple, real life events like taxes are somehow distorted into false beliefs. No one living in America today can say that they pay less in taxes and fees today than they did a decade ago. No one that is except a paranoid psychotic who refuses to take their meds.

Rene,
Firts off, I hate Babs…
You say it’s always about money for the Republicans… Tell me then why do the Dems always want the minimun wage raised? I save my hard earned dollars and have never ask for or received a handout PERIOD… and that includes NO student loans. I spent 8 years going to college because I had to work my way through it. We all have economic choices to make and my suggestion is put down the smokes and the beer, basic cable if you must and no premium channels, no surround sound HD-Plasma-Dig 5ft televisions, no new Ipod or XM radio contracts and save a few books by picking up a good book and reading. If more people would spend time truely educating themselves and less time wasting away in Oprah-Land we would have a lot fewer problems. Ohio just passed a law to raise the minimun wage by 33% and we are already 48th in the nation as far a business climate goes. So much for any new jobs here in Buckeye Land.

The Republicans needed a wake-up call and if the Democrats see this as vindication of their goals, they’re sadly mistaken. They’d best take this time and accomplish something that will benefit the working class or they’ll find themselves out the door next election. At least this should keep Bush from forcing his North American Union ambitions on Americans his last 2 years in office. Mexico will have to find another means of support.

“DON’T trivialize investigative hearings. They are vital for healing this fractured nation.”
Whenever politicians stage investigative hearings, it’s all trivial.

I find it absoltely ironic that most of the right wing fanatics who are going going crazy on this board presume to lecture America on what the Dems will do with power. Spend money? Have you been paying attention?
Roll back/ cut or raise taxes. I make way more money than most but even I realize it is idiotic to spend a fortune and put less money in the coffers.
Contrary to popular belief it is NOT required for the rest of the world to hate us.
Newsflash.. as a Christian no where do I recall that one portion of the nation should tell me what my moral values should be and try to govern them. Thats on God.
The Dems may fail miseable but this vote is one of some type of central compromise. The extreme right is just flat out phonies.

It really doesn’t make much difference who is in power. One side or the other is going to “investigate” each other to the detriment of our country. Power corrupts and both sides smell. The human race is smart as individuals and I am going to figure a way to cover myself and MY family. Life is not guaranteed easy. Most Americans are spoiled brats and my generation especially. The whining and gloating are pathetic. I am going to take care of mine and let you other zealots blow smoke.

Please newly empowered Senaotrs and Congressman show some guts by enacting the Kyoto Protocols and raise the tax on as by $2.00 per gallon. Make it expensive and people will conserve. Hit the SUV drivers hard and redistribute the gas tax to working families and the poor. If the guzzlers want to drive, make em pay! Also, outlaw all those tax loop holes related to trust funds. Tax these funds like ordinary income so the fat cat Republicans can pay their share instead of sheltering everything for their spoiled kids.

To all of the cry babies, shut up and set back and see what happens!
We gave the Bush wacker six years, lets give the Democrats two years befor you start crying!
Set back and watch, you still have RUSH !!!!

FIRST OF ALL, I AM NOT DEMOCRAT AND I AM DEFINITELY NOT A REPUBLICAN AND WITH THESE RIGHT WING POSTS ON THIS BOARD -YOU CAN TRULY UNDERSTAND WHY I ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH EITHER PARTY.FOR YEARS WE HAVE WATCHED BUSH AND A REPUBLICAN LED CONGRESS DO NOTHING FOR THIS COUNTRYS MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS.WE HAVE WATCHED GOVERMENT EXPAND, THE DEFICIT AND WAGES STAGNATE.WE SEE A WAR BUILT ON LIES AND BS IDEOLOGY BECOME THE BIGGEST BLUNDER IN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH NO EASY SOLUTIONS(STAY THE COURSE).NOT TO MENTION ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING AND TOO MANY INPROPIETIES TO MENTION ALL UNDER REPUBLICAN CONTROL.NOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE WON MANY OF YOU ON THIS BOARD HAVE THE AUDACITY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT PAYBACK.THIS IS SICKENING. THE GOP DESERVES PAYBACK -THEY ALL NEED TO BE HIT UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH A COPY OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION-THEY LOST BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO STAND UP TO GEORGE BUSH AND KARL ROVE.ALL AMERICA NEEDED WAS FOR THE CHECKS AND BALANCES FRAMED IN THE CONSTITUTION TO TAKE HOLD,BUT NO REPUBLICANS STOOD UP.THIS ELECTION WAS NOT ABOUT CUTTING AND RUNNING IT WAS ABOUT FINDING SOMEONE OR SOME PARTY WITH A BACKBONE TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I would like to remind your readers that, overall, both Republicans and Democrats who won their races did so with numbers that are so statistically small as to constitute the fact that half of the voters did not want them to represent them. Personally, I am disheartened to read many of these postings refer to “payback”. It is far past time for both parties to work together for what is best for the country rather than what is best for their plays for power and the money that accompanies it.

Someone said “Put your money in your mattress!”
Well, if there’s two things the republicans care about it’s money and mattresses!
Isn’t that right Mark Foley.
Can I get an “amen” Ted Haggard?
Look there, Don Sherwood got all choked up.
As for me, I’m laughing my ass off and hoping that the dems have the balls to do to the republicans what they have been doing to little boys and gay hookers and mistresses half their age for the past few years!
Revenge is a dish best-served cold.

Sad day for this country. While the democrats are running over with joy we have others within our borders and those on distant shores that wish us harm and are licking their chops. They now see that we have a leadership that has been voted in that will run instead of fight. And what makes this truly sad is the fact that a portion of Americans would rather run when the chance presents itself instead of fighting. These are the people that want the easy road in life. So these Americans wanted a “new course” they are going to get it but they will soon find out it is a deadend road. We had great economy, that will change. We had Americans working, that will change. And we had safety, that too will change. So the democrats are in charge after all the bashing of this President and the constant trashing of this country. So for them I say it’s time to put up, or shut up. But I have no faith either one will be done.

I see a lot of negative comments from Republicans about investigations. Have you forgotten about the millions spent in the relentless investigation of the Clintons. Whitewater a real estate deal, Paula Jones, Monica all personal and not involving the public. But you think investigating the Niger papers, Cheney secret meetings with oil execs, the abuses Iraq and Katrina reconstruction are not worthwhile? What are you nuts? In the very least- as the Bible says – YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!!

It will be fun to watch, if the Demos are so stupid that they pursue personal agendas rather than what is best for this country, they will be history in two years.

This is the greatest time in American history. Finally we can move closer to the end of Western Civilization! The only thing standing in the way of getting rid of the last real Americans was the Republican controlled Congress. Go ahead and pick out your cave now, because it won’t be long before Atlas shrugs!

Seriously looking at moving to Cananda …or iceland Sick of this crap…. Not being a spoiled looser but this country is just doomed …

If it had been a Demomcratic congress and president for the past six years, Republicans would be holding those in charge responsible for the most catastrophic series of failures and abuses in the past 100 years. Instead, you just keep cheering while you take the rest of us down with you. Support the war? Enlist or send your kid, coWards.

All I hear is whining and finger pointing. These are things I dealt with when I was a child and it looks like it’s coming full circle. I am an American 1st and a Democrat 2nd and i’ll tell you i’m tired of all of it.
Regardless of who runs this country, I guarantee you, it will be driven into the ground. Not by nukes, terrorists, gays, or illegal aliens but by the deep hatred the citzens and government have for each other. It’s the 21st century and full grown adults still can’t get along for the goodness of this country and mankind. Grow up everybody and stop predicting events that you truly can’t fathom, though it’s easy to say in front of your computer in your home. Change is good as long as we can agree to it.

ENOUGH ALREADY. What a bunch of sour grapes. The Republicans couldn’t wait to spend hard earned tax-payer dollars to investigate Clinton’s little affair with Monica, couldn’t wait to impeach him, did everything they could to waste time and effort which could have well been spend on many more important subjects – like caring for our veterans, the elderly, the sick, the poor, getting a hold on education, making schools safe, fixing the roads . . . and now all I hear in crying about “revenge” – I am so tired of it – all I want is for these elected official to get off their thrones and do what they are paid BIG money to do – so figure out how to work together- get this country back on track, and get out soldiers out of Iraq. Maybe EVERYONE up on the hill needs a timeout until they can figure out how to play with each other in a respectful, intelligent and worthwild manner.

A few million for investigations bother you? How about the scores of billions being squandered, stolen, and misappropriated in Iraq, by Halliburton and Blackwater and many others; for 14000 rotting trailers for Katrina; for oil companies that are mining our pockets of every cent we have, for profit-bloated drug companies that are selling Medicare billions of prescriptions at full price – and I could go on and on. Thank God, Bush’s give-away to Wall Street in the form of Private Savings Accounts was stopped. And who is paying these billions? Of course the right-wing cry-babies aren’t, that’s why they’re happy to vote Republican. They’re thrilled to be stealing from our kids, who will be paying the bill for our trillions of borrowed dollars. And who are these “Know-Nothings” to complain about immigrants! Who do these Know-Nothings think will pay for their retirement and medicare? We happen to need more workers to pay for our old age – and for our uncontrolled Republican government borrowing! Open the damn borders, let ‘em in, especially the ones with an education and skills – Indians and Russians and Chinese. Let ‘em all come. If we don’t, we’re gonna hit the wall, in terms of the economy, at a 100mph within 20 years or so. These “fereigners” are gonna save our butts, but only if we let ‘em. Wake up and smell the coffee, all you unreconstructed Confederates, Know-Nothings, and other Red State types out there! The Dems in Congress are your last stinking hope! You better pray it’s not too late, and that they can get the job done! You and your kind brought us to this terrible pass – pray the rest of us can clean up the mess!

You sound rather bitter Tom. Nobody wants people to lose their pension. I find it hard to beleive that your company took away your pension and left you with nothing. It helps if your eggs aren’t all in one basket. The economy has been very strong. I’m just a middle class person but I have been able to invest a bit in the stock market. People shouldn’t be so dependent on the government. As for the world hating us… when a country needs aid , money or support, who is the first country they call on? America. It’s because they can count on us.

If I may offer my long term prediction which included yesterday’s democratic gains…next up will be the kind of back-biting both parties seem incapable of avoiding…next to arrive will be the follow-up to 9-eleven with devastation in more than one city…this will of course result in much finger pointing before it devolves into this country’s next civil war…a country this divided can only stay together so long…in my opinion

Yes, now the Democrats are in power and what do we have to look forward to….more unemployment and a weaker USA. See the Democrats pull the rug out from under our troops and cut the support from them out of the budget. Yes hide your money in the mattress…the democrats will soon be after it.

Sorry…in my eyes, the democrats ran a sham campaign. Only problem is, the American people who found enough energy to show up to vote yesterday bought it. This was nothing more but parading conversative democrats in front of the media, and throwing money at them to win an election. None of the democratic leadership in the House or Senate are conservative liberals. They knew the conservative values in this country, the appetite for change, and acted on it. For what? To put extremists in charge. Pelosi, Conyers, Rangel…all extremists!

I liken this “hostile” takeover of the House and possibly the Senate to a insurrection because no where in the Democrats agenda do they outline any specific plans for Iraq or the country as a whole. And i think Pelosi needs to retire be’cuz she’ll get chewed to pieces by her own party.

From reading the above it is clear now why we could not succeed in Iraq. The inability to see beyond hatred and self-loathing fear that the Republicans are now displaying. More than ever I am glad they are out … let’s get on with fixing the problems in spite of this hateful juvenile drivel that they speak.

What I find discouraging are the people on this blog who are ripping each other with terms like fascist, communist, etc. If this is a portent of things to come in D.C., this country is in for a rough ride.
The Republican party has done some things well, some poorly. Apparently, the public felt they hadn’t done a sufficient job of serving their interests.
the Dems won, now they have the responsibility of serving this nation’s citizens. If they do a shitty job, they’ll be out, too.
But meaningless ad hominem attacks will not help anyone, either on line or in the government. Perhaps if we all sought to honor, respect and serve one another, this country to attain to greatness.

Wake Up! Americans didn’t vote for Democrats, they voted against Republicans! Why did an overwhelming number of conservative proposals succeed if Americans are so enamored with liberal “ideals”. Affirmative action, illegal immigrants’ rights, gay marriage…these issues were all soundly defeated nationwide. Miss that, and you’ve missed the message being sent. I’m all for a change in politics, but if Democrats start ramming their social agendas down our throats, it won’t even take a full term for Americans to return to the GOP. Go Joe (Lieberman)! Make history by showing how little you need a party to make a difference!

The dems will waste 2 years just trying to get revenge..and will do nothing more to try and get our troops out safely,and still blame it on someone else.
They are no better than what was there before.
One day in Power and their only concern is REVENGE…How pathetic!
And all they want is for the USA to be patrolled more by BIG BROTHER and make others less accountable and responsible for themselves.
They are a group of enablers!

They need to move forward and not get bogged down in the past. That is what will happen if they start all these investigations. They will get nothing done and the public with see that it wasn’t “change” but “revenge” and will vote them out again.
I really hope they are smarter than that.

Hello entitlements, goodbye prosperity.

Had the Republicans not been so corrupt and fascist these last 6 years Dems wouldn’t have to spend anytime on investigations, but someone’s gotta provide sincere oversight.
So yes, Dems can correct the past WHILE moving this country forward. Just chill and observe.

Goodbye and good riddance to the immoral majority. This country has had enough of the scandals and corruption the of the radical right-wing christians. Is it telling that most of the posts below that support this awful administration are wrought with misspellings and bad grammar? Anyone who graduated with a GED diploma, please don’t vote. I know, I know…all you republicans are lost without this corrupt administration telling you what to believe and when to be afraid. Time to think for yourselves and watch how smart people do things.

I’m truly amazed at the number of intellectually gifted individuals posting on this site. One can only hope that some of the Democrats with backbone impeach this entire morally bankrupt, greedy, dishonest administration starting with Bush. 3000 dead American Troops cry out from the grave that these criminals lied us into a war based on oil. First on my agenda would be getting the notes on Cheney’s energy task force meeting in 2001 which have yet to be released. I would imagine they will show exactly why we went into Iraq and that it had nothing to do with terrorism or Osama Bin Laden. As you morons have been saying for the last six years: YOU LOST now get over it.

It is payback time so stop sniveling. The American people have been living in fear long enough, Not of TERRORISTS but the Government inflicted terror by passing bills like the Military Comissions Act, trying to turn our free America into a police state. Never being held accountable for 911,blamimg people for not leaving before Katrina hit and then just walking away when our beloved brothers and sisters needed your help more than ever before. Oh patriotic Neo Cons not allowing us the freedom to hear the truth of what is really happening in Iraq. Our precious men and women who we absolutely supported and will continue to support all along the way being sent to this war on lies. A war without the proper equipment, without enough soldiers to fight a war without end. As we the working poor and middle class watch helplessly as our jobs are outsourced. We work two and three minimum wage jobs and still cannot make ends meet. How would you expect us to feel. You being the most arrogant and hateful group of people that Are always looking for someone to take advantage of, someone to hate and riducule. The worst hypocrits are the ones that are the faithful so called Christians that are saved no matter what you do. I believe in God and he tells us not to be arrogant nor hateful, to treat people the way you want to be treated, to help the less fortunate and you exploit them and damn them instead. Shame on you and may God give you strength and enlightenment.

some have commented that we should get our wallets out. I wouldn’t mind putting my dollars where my mouth is, but 12 years of republican tax-the- poor-to-finance-the-rich policy have left me without a wallet worth mentionning.

i agree…investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach! investigate, impeach!

The majority won, and America spoke. This rodeo has gone on for too long. America was being destroyed by the GOP’s Hee-Haw politics and we needed a change. Now let’s investigate the corporations who have been reaping untold fortunes off the backs of the low and middle class. Let’s remove the veil of corruption that has plagued America and made a mockery of our constitution. Let’s pray for our dignity to be restored!

I am neither Dem or Repub…I have no faith in either. They are only interested in their own good and power. It is sad, pathetic really.Genuine concern for the COMMON MEN, WOMEN and children of this country should be first on all of their minds. There must be a new common party- the American Citizen party -something that only permits representatives to speak for their neighbors in an honest effort to improve our lives, no lobbying, no pay offs and no careers in Washington. This was meant to be a short term job and then back to work at home, in your real job. No millionaires should be allowed to run for office, period. Average people, who pay taxes and morgages, raise children and deal with every day life should characterize our leaders. We citizens are a joke to the corrupt, power hungry politicians- local, state and national -dems or repubs. They do not care about the people in this country. I am sick of them all.
It was not meant to be like this. Term limits should be the FIRST THING we see implemented.

There once was a fella named Rummy,
who worked for a certified dummy.
Now the joke is on them
since the country’s gone Dem.
I’d laugh but things aren’t very funny.

KBR/Halliburton IS a foreign company. Ever tried looking up to see how much in taxes KBR pays to the US Treasury? Surprise! They’re an off-shore company, incorporated to receive the billions of dollars from US taxpayers granted to them under their sole-source contracts without anything going back to the USA. When was the last time you were paid billions of dollars and paid ZERO taxes on it? There won’t be the need to raise any taxes if the deadbeat companies like KBR with their sweetheart deals paid their fair share.

Interesting calls for ‘revenge’ and ‘petty investigations’ … I guess when you have six years of injustice and exploitative deabauchery, actual justice looks like something crass and unnecessary.
You anti-democrats need to wake up. There have been six years of scandals and lies, and you simply don’t care and want to move on, calling any just examination of the corrupt tactics and forces currently at play ‘revenge’ and worthless? You don’t care about billions of your tax dollars and thousands of your fellow americans dead and dying? What are your priorities in this world? Would you rather keep on pushing for destruction of social security and reckless tax cuts? Grow up.

Listen, I don’t care if you are Dem or Rep but understand this. Those in the Muslim radical movement only want one thing and that is you and all Americans DEAD. They don’t want your money or your land, they want your life. They will take your head, rape your wife and daughters and sell your children as slaves. It is not the Dems or Rep that scares me but it is this movement in the Arab countries. The Dems say we are making more terrorist by being in Iraq. Pull out of Iraq and the number of terrorist will triple. Is this a war for oil, you bet your sweet ### it is. If the radical Muslims get it then we will hear all of us squalling about gas prices and our economy will be brought to its knees, here and in Europe.
I agree with all of you that have brought up term limits, if it is good enough for the President then it should be good enough for all of them. They should be there to serve us not to become rich at our expense. I would rather have a full in office for 6 years or 12 then for a life time. I think a movement for term limits needs to be started, is there any one out there willing to start that movement.

It’s funny how so many Republicans closed their eyes to what the GOP was doing to ruin the US but the moment the Dems mention investigations all of a sudden the country is going to hell.
If you had opened your eyes you would have seen that starting a few years ago by your own party. I am an independant and am quite glad the US may return from it’s Soviet style regime.

“Democrats would rather spend tens of billions of dollars on foreign companies working in the middle east instead of the American company Haliburton. I call that anti-Americanism.”
The reality is that a LOT of this work is contracted BY companes like Halliburton to local companies for a fraction of the price (bviz. the big highway project in Afghanistan, which resulted in a big road that is so badly built it is impassable), and then the US company merely pockets the difference.
I CALL THAT AMERICANS SCREWING AMERICA.

I see a lot of complaining here by some pretty twisted Republicans. I do recall being told, six years ago, to “sit down and shut up.”
The Republicans had their chance. To say they blew it is an understatement.
I have noticed that there are a few people who left comments here who seem to have their heads screwed on straight. Some even seem to be coming from a Republican perspective. As those people have mentioned, the important thing is that the new Congress gets right into the business of governing. We have a huge mess to clean up, and if we don’t all work on it together, we’re screwed.
I’d like to see some heads roll, too, but at what cost? Let’s fix some problems, and some big ones like Iraq, FIRST. THEN let’s get the bastards that have screwed us. If we actually take care of business first, the Republicans will gladly hand over Cheney and the rest of them. Both the Democrats and the Republicans will be strengthened. Our nation will heal.

Neocons, whatever happened to “United We Stand”? Does that only apply as long as GOP controls all three branches of government? Let’s see if you can live up to your bumper sticker slogans. Obviously the vast majority of *Americans* felt like our government was taking us in the wroing direction.

If we don’t conduct investigations and prosecute those who have committed crimes in the name of public service, how do we stop it from happening again when all of you flip flop in two years? What kind of message does it send NOT to do anything? It’s amazing that all the Republicans here simply want to just forget everything their party has done over the last few years and “move forward”. Well, first we have to clean up your mess!

Wow, have you ever seen such a bunch of snivveling enablers as many of those on this board who are lamenting pending investigations.
I for one can think of no greater urgency than to expose the many crimes of this administration, and coming from repuboican boot-lickers who no-doubt foamed at the mouth of every obscure rumor and hearsay that was investigated ad naseum both on the public airwaves and in the halls of congress about anything related to Clinton, I find the stench of hypocricy too strong to bear here.
IT IS THE JOB OF THE CONGRESS TO PROVIDE A CHECK AND BALANCE TO THE EXECUTIVE.
IT IS NOT “PAYBACK” TO INVESTIGATE THIS ADMINISTRATION…IT IS THEIR JOBS.
So all you hand-wringing harbingers of doom, predicting that the country is going to hell in a handbasket because the democrats will spend their time investigatin, I say it’s damn-well about time.
If the democrats cave to the pressure of the knuckle-draggers who spent the last 6 years calling them traitors, they can count on a huge smackdown by the electorate in two years.
Investigate like rabid dogs come January 1!
Start with 911!

Why don’t Republicans want investigations into Bush’s illegal war and Republican corruption?
Because they still can’t admit they were wrong.
They don’t want it proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they have been wrong all along.
Hell, two days ago Sean Hannity was still saying we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
It isn’t payback that’s a bitch, it’s reality.
Investigate. Impeach. Imprison.

In reply to RA: So hiring people and companies from the mid-east to clean up and repair thier OWN county is un-american? That’s one of the main reasons they are killing our sons and daughters….we took their jobs from them and they are unemployed and pissed. What don’t you understand about that?.. you dolt.

Things are hopefully starting turn around. Now all the power isn’t controlled by one entity.

So we spend 1 billion dollars a day in the war in iraq, and we cant even spend a fraction of that to help the people from impoverished countries. Even on our own soil we dont spend that kind of money on our own citizens. The most profitable business in our liftime ladies and gentlemen is warfare. Its an 80 billion dollar a year industry. We, “the middle class”, are sick and tired of this administration spending our hard earned money on a war which was started on lies and deception. Make no mistake, i am grateful that there are men and women who are fighting for our country. But do they really know what were fighting for.?? The real agenda on the war in iraq.? Are we fighting in iraq for whos cause, his or the american people.?? the country has spoken nov 8th, a change of leadership!!

Somewhere in a dark cave in Pakistan, UBL is smiling. Think about that.

Take down the media corporations/conglomerates/monopolies, all of them, break them up. Cancel the broadcasting licenses of ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX. You want to play footsie with fascists and refuse to take up your responsibilities to investigate government and present the truth the the public? Then do it some other way than on OUR public airwaves. Inestigate and prosecute for treason all senior media people who colaborated with the Bush fascist government against the best wishes of the vast majority of Americans in order to fatten the wealthy and destroy the constitution. Hang those found guilty. There, off to a good start. The destruction of America came about with the very support of its citizens because they were denied the truth by the media, attack the roots of the problem.

as one of the truck drivers working for halliburton in iraq all i can say is this is the first time in 43 years i have been almost fincialy solvent ever. is the goverment going to screw me? i go out side the wire and risk my life and limb every day i dont know about these ripoffs everbody accuses kbr of.i came over to hopefully pay off a bad divorce from a drug addicted woman and am just getting back on my feet againhow is this going to affect me and a lot of other hardworking americans overseas….thankyou m.russell

Its very funny to see all you bitter repubs, what will the dems do in iraq, simple, listen to their generals and other military experts instead of ignoring, berating and a completely ignoring them. The ignorance of power. bush, cheney, rumy, I hope they all held accountable 4 what they have done andend up i jail. POWER TO DA PEOPLE

I’m alarmed by the bitterness some of the right-wingers have expressed here. The country’s going to go to hell because of the Dems? That’s ABSURD.
The country is already there!
Wake up right-wingers. Turn off your O’Riley, your Limbaugh, etc. Try reading a REAL newspaper AND FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS.

wingnuts still have’nt figured out it’s about the constitution, not partisan politics.

i feel much better the dems. have won. a president who says if your not with us your against us, is not an american why of life, a president who says that i am a terroist because i dont support him is not an american why of life, a president who says that a vote for dems is a vote for terroists is not an american why of life, a president who does nothing about oil companys price gauging, is not an american why of life, and an president who says nothing while faux news, loser limbaugh, religious nuts call everybody who does not agree with them vicious and outrageuos lies, is not an american why of live. a president should look after all people, this president has not. osama is a right wing religious conservative, bush is a rightwing religious conservative. i feel much better that dems. are in.

terroist dancing in the streets? fighting over there so we dont have to fight here? the terroist have won? just because the american people voted? what happened to bushes home land security? the one he did not want to begin with, must not be much good. if because the dems. won the terroist will be here. the last terroists where hear already. maybe now we can find out why bush did nothing about it(google 911 and see what you get). why did bush fire everyone who told him the best way to handle iraq? maybe the dems. will get it right and take it the terroist instend of them taking to our troops in iraq? maybe the truth hurts to much to some people? you bushies just keep listening to faux, limbaugh, dobson, coltureand any other right wing nuts who will say anything for bush. main stream media is bias to the left? where have they been the last six years? msm has been under a rock for fear of reprisels from reps for telling the truth. i hope the dems have learned a lesson from the reps. and start to govern for the security of all americans.

to me, its not the dems. or reps. we should be made as hell at. its the media. the rightwing media prapoganda of hate and lies, twists and spin. the leftwing media for not exposing this prapoganda.

Time to conduct a thorough and truly independent investigation of 9/11.
Yes, yes, yes! Tie that 9/11 “truther” anchor around the dems neck so hard they won’t be able to shake it in 08′.

Come on the Republicans have wasted hundreds of billions of your hard earned tax dollars to line the pockets of their rich buddies. All the while hundreds of thousands of human beings have been slaughtered. Not even to mention the destruction of a nation all based on lies and more lies. Then we have not even begun to address the hundreds of thousands of our nations sons, daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters and families in our over stretched and overburdened military. Shame on you all. Not to mention the Hundreds of billions of dollars being given away to big business. What is wrong with you. These Republicans deserve to be investigated and prosecuted if they have been found guilty of such utter disregard for the dignity, rights and unimaginable suffering that they have wrought on the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. So please excuse me if I have no empathy for your phony shallow calls for nonpartisanship. And you do not get it then you are a cold hearted shallow bunch for certain. Too many have suffered and will continue to suffer for decades to come to allow these people to not be brought to justice, the innocent deserve at least that.
And I have not even begun to address the trillions of dollars that have been wasted and leave us vulnerable to nations (china) who do not wish us any good will, and who we have mortgaged our children’s future on.

There are hundreds of thousands dead and dying because of this administrations lies. Hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars have been given away to greedy big corporations. Hundreds of thousands of people lives have been destroyed. Our children’s futures have been mortgaged off to china to finance this whole debacle. And we are all supposed to play nice and just let this bunch of liars and crooks just go about their pleasant little lives. Sorry but that is about the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. To say that reveals what a bunch of self-centered shallow bunch we have here. No way hundreds of thousands have suffered and lost too much to allow such a injustice to go unanswered.

The blame game is over for President Bush. He is better be more rational, honest, and fair for his last 2 years or he will be finished with an impeachment.
You can not twisted the facts and let 2,800 soldiers died for Halliburton to get rich….you can’t preaching about patriotism…when you sign up for national guard to skip tour of duty in Vietnam.

The trollers and Republican talking point parrots are out in mass spinning damage control. Part of the real issues facing the nation Are investigating what the Bush Administration did and is doing. The propaganda of Republican talking points by people who try and appear otherwise is obvious. The Democrats in Congress can be as comprimising as they want to and Bush can still use his veto with immunity and the right wing noise machine will accuse the Democratic Congress of not being effective, not compromising enough (totally in agreement with the Bush Administration), or of gridlock. In fact the propaganda has already started by Rove and Norquist. The nation will also need to address Other real issues of national health care, infrastructure, Resinding Tax Cuts to the Wealthy, Entitlements to Big Business and the attack on Civil Liberties. Its either the last best chance with the Democrats or it will be full steam ahead for a Fascist Dictatorship.

The al-Qaida leader in Iraq welcomed the Republican defeat. Abu Ayyub al-Masri said he wants American troops to stay in Iraq so that they can kill them. He wants to continue Jihad until they can destroy the White House. He said,”So they voted for something reasonable in the last elections.”

Bipartisanship? Didn’t Dick Armey define that as ‘date rape’?

i’m a republican that voted demacrat for a change in policy, if this new house and senate is only interested in payback investigations then get it started and ended and find those guilty, so Bush before leaving office can grant the pardons like Clinton did before his shuts the door on the way out

While I understand those saying they want results instead of a partisan witch-hunt… it is absolutely imperative that the scope of corruption be brought to light. The organizations such as AEI and PNAC cannot be allowed to slip away and become serious legitimate sources of policy again.
No longer should anyone from a “Think Tank” be accepted on face value.
While the next 2 years will be unsavory to some because of the investigations… PLEASE don’t blame the Dems for investigating it… blame the Repubs for making it necessary.

They’re free to rake the GOP over the coals! no legislation at all is better than the graft and profiteering we’ve had for 6 years.

two suggestions for the DEMS
#1….begin impeachment proceedings …ASAP
#2….sit back and wait and let KING GEORGE SWEAT….over his mess in IRAQ….we should never have been there in the first place

Terrorists…created and funded by whom? Impeach the liars…how else will America heal and move on.

“This country is about to go to hell in handbasket.”
its going there in any case

I think it is funny that the Democrats won!! The Republicans have done nothing more than burst the federal budget after Clinton got this country in the black, sex scandals using our kids for there pleasor, scandals of illegal money changing hands, and do not forget the War that was Won OH please. I have had enough of the Republicans!!! If they were doinf there job they would still be in office. Republicans voted for Democrats because they are sick and tired of Tom Delay,Rumsfedlt and all the rest of those crooks in office. If taxes are rsiased it will be becasue the Republicans have illegal increase our deficient out of control so they could line there pockets. If this is not true why are all these Republicans going to jail??? I hope this so called President gets impeached. Talk about lying!! He has done nothing but lye. The country is finally feed up!!! Its was time for a change and the Republicans will not be able to steal another election through the Vice Presidents riged machines. Yes we all know he has ties to the election machines.

If anyone thinks the Dems will really get on with things that matter to the future of this country, they are living in a dream world. It will more likely be 2 years of investigations, and the blame game. And what happens if Abramoff spills the beans on the 5 to 6 seriously flawed Democratic Senators. Here we go again, corruption in the Senate. Nothing new here..

Why all the complaining? I think a NO_BID contract to our vice presidents former company, along with all the alleged waste and fraud that has come with this, is clearly fair game for the democrats to investigate.
Republicans brought this on themselves. Not ONE republican senator voted yes on a bill in 2005 to check this halliburton stuff out. So the americans gave democrats the majority and we ARE going to get to the bottom of this.
In the future, we need to abolish no-bid contracts, what the heck is wrong with trying to save american taxpayers money??
I think you republicans are just afraid of what this investigation will uncover. You truly are.