Some of you are good peole who believed what Bush said in 2000, then you got sucked into towing the line when Bush failed to make good on his promises. You were sucked into Iraq as a candy and flowers mission. It is OK, pick your head up. You poor guys got left with a stretched anus.

Head is up. Didn't get sucked into anything. Overall..Bush has preformed!
I have not one problem with balance in gov. I don't care for the elects but, I know that the president has to work with these peope becasue this is what the people want. I think he will honor that and all joking aside I don't consider it as big a loss as it may appear.

tow the line

Spitty I think I hear the ice cream truck....oh oh you can't have some.....cause you on the welfare....

Where did he go...he must have took out after the truck...

In my hood the ice cream man takes food stamps. He will also sell you a dime-bag.

OMG...TMI....you know what I was quoting right??

Statement from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert
Wed Nov 08 2006 14:40:42 ET

(Washington, D.C.) Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement:

"As a former wrestling coach, I know what it is like when your team takes second place in the state tournament. It hurts. And so it is with politics.

"This morning I called Nancy Pelosi to congratulate her. At the beginning of the next Congress she will make history as the first female Speaker of the House. Her achievement follows from a lot of hard work and determination, and I respect that.

"Now that the Democrats have won the House, they have a huge responsibility to help govern this nation. We are at war, and what is at stake goes to the very nature of our democracy. We can and should have a vigorous debate about how we conduct the war. But that debate must rest on a mutual understanding that our enemy is ruthless and seeks to destroy our way of life, and that we must ultimately be victorious in this battle.

"Likewise, the Democrats now have a responsibility to work with our President to provide homeland security -- and to ensure a continuation of the economic prosperity that has improved the lives of so many working Americans.

"Many pundits will analyze why the Democrats won and why the Republicans lost-obviously I wish my party had won. I take some comfort in the fact that a majority of the winning candidates ran on a platform of common sense conservatism, be they Republican or Democrat. That bodes well for the future of our nation.

"Finally, I want to thank all of my colleagues, friends, and constituents for all the support they have given me over the years. It has been an honor and a great personal privilege for this old wrestling coach to be able to serve the American people as their Speaker.

"The men and women of the Republican Conference in the House are dedicated public servants. I can think of no higher honor than to have been entrusted by them with the Speaker's gavel in four consecutive Congresses. Together we accomplished many good things for the American people and together we will always be proud of those accomplishments.

"The Republican leader in the 110th Congress will have the responsibility to emphasize conservative values and reform principles. I will not seek this role, but will support our leader to the best of my ability as I return to the full-time task of representing the people of the 14PthP district of Illinois who have honored me 11 times with the privilege of serving them in the House of Representatives."

END

LAME DUCK BUSH IS LEFT CRIPPLED BY A CRUSHING VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE
By JOHN PODHORETZ

November 8, 2006 -- THE presidency of George W. Bush ended last night.

The Democratic Party turned this election into a referendum on the president - and the president lost.

The Democratic successes last night don't herald dramatic shifts in policy, the way the Republican 1994 triumph did.

There will be no dramatic shifts in policy. We will not bug out of Iraq. There will be no tax increase.

The president will have significant trouble getting conservatives on federal courts, including the Supreme Court - but he's had that same trouble notwithstanding the comfortable Republican margin in the Senate that disappeared last night.

And since one of the results of this election has been the election of more moderate Democrats, last night's new Congressmen will serve as a check on liberal-to-radical Dems who seem determined to turn themselves into proctologists investigating every internal aspect of the Bush administration.

Even so, this is it for Bush. This election was a remarkable reversal of the results of 2002 - when Republicans took back the Senate and improved their position in the House because Bush nationalized the midterm balloting on the issue of homeland security.

Last night, Democrats nationalized the election on the issue of Iraq in the broadest sense.

By standing in vague but passionate opposition to the president's handling of the war, they formed a new voting alliance - an alliance between doves, who think Iraq was a mistake to begin with, and one-time hawks who think Iraq was a perfectly fine thing to do in the first place, but that it's a huge mess now and Bush should pay.

Going for that anti-Iraq alliance without offering an escape plan of their own was a brilliant political tactic.

For that, and for recruiting some terrific candidates, all glory goes to New York's own Chuck Schumer, who ran the Senate effort from Washington, and to Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who did the work in the House.

Where do they go with the new alliance in forcing the president's hand on Iraq? Well, they go - nowhere.

In fact, the politics of the Iraq war are now startlingly muddy. Democrats ousted Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate primary in August because he was pro-war - and Lieberman won anyway last night.

An anti-war Republican, Lincoln Chafee, lost his Senate seat in Rhode Island. That lack of ideological clarity on core Democratic issues is another consequence of last night's elections. Schumer and Emanuel both understood that in certain swing states they needed to field candidates who could appeal to Republican voters.

In Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, for example, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tax-cut Democrats took seats away from pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tax-cut Republicans.

But while the picture isn't clear for Democrats over the next two years, it is pretty clear for George W. Bush.

This brings his activist presidency to a close.

Bush worked his will in Washington to a remarkable degree. Among all presidents since FDR, only Dwight D. Eisenhower got as much out of Congress during the same six-year period.

With Democrats holding some sway on Capitol Hill, Bush will no longer get his way. He will, instead, become a caretaker. And maybe, in the end, that's a good thing - because he can spend the final 25 months of his presidency focusing exclusively on securing a victory in Iraq.

And thereby turn this midterm defeat into a victory recorded by history.

jpodhoretz@gmail.com

>>>It's not a big loss at all. Seems to me you're party is sucking all the leftwingers and progressives toward the middle. Maybe Nancy can straighten everybody out.