Rumsfeld Quits -

[ponto]

Americans demanded change -- most of all in Iraq -- with their mid-term election lashing of President George W. Bush's Republican Party, and it came almost immediately with the resignation on Wednesday of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

source (http://elections.us.reuters.com/top/news/usnN08173511.html)

[Foxy]

Whoot... let's hope he doesn't go "postal" we all know what kind of shot he is, sorry, I had to go there.

[kybikertrash]

Are you referring to Dick Cheney's aim???

[Foxy]

Yeah, only I did mean it towards Rumsfield... the postal thing anyway..

[kcredden]

I'm quite pleased with this too. I've thought for awile, Rummy has to go. This has been a great day - aside from the weather (grumblemissedthemercurytransit) :(

[acoolmom777]

ok now that the dem's have the house, lets see what they can do. And if they fall on their....ummm....face, then we better turn to a 3rd party.

[TheMan]

Somebody has to be the scapegoat...

[Chuck]

ok now that the dem's have the house, lets see what they can do. And if they fall on their....ummm....face, then we better turn to a 3rd party.

Dem's had the house back when everything was running good. LOL

[mark]

Dem's had the house back when everything was running good. LOL


Well, now they can get it running good again.........hopefully with out a tax increase.

We'll wait & see............see ya mark

[tbplayer]

God help us the liberals have the house ....oops shouldn't mention God, they might have a problem with that

[Chuck]

Well, now they can get it running good again.........hopefully with out a tax increase.

We'll wait & see............see ya mark

You know as well as I do we will be in political stalemate for the next 2 years.

I don't care about the whole Dem vs Rep thing. I just want to see balance. Not one side having there way.

Wouldn't need this conversation if we had true balance. This situation is not a true balance.

I think Bush is tired of people quitting on him. Only one left from the originals is Dick I think. lol. I had to go for the cheap shot....

[mark]

God help us the liberals have the house ....oops shouldn't mention God, they might have a problem with that


..............probably so.

Just wait, every left leaning group will be coming out of the wookwork wanting the dems to push their agenda. You'll probably see the gay rights issue, the "Under God" in the pledge issue, abortion issue, tax raises issues etc. all start coming out soon.

I should be interesting to watch............see ya mark

[acoolmom777]

I don't care about the whole Dem vs Rep thing. I just want to see balance. Not one side having there way.


That is what it is all about Chuck, just like kids...both sides of these adults want their own way and when they don't get it, they throw a hissy fit; get mad and do stuff right or not to express their anger.

[tkcomer]

I don’t think you will see the radical left put much if anything on the table. The Dems have way too much to do to try and straighten out the mess the ‘Pubs left for any new agenda. And it will take more than two years to do that.

[kdown]

One word you will hear a lot in the coming year is - VETO

[Jeremy]

One word you will hear a lot in the coming year is - VETO

That's exactly why it's finally balanced. Even if the House or Senate passed a bill for something like stem cell research (which Bush has vetoed before), the President can still refuse to approve it. Should he do that, it would take a 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate to override the veto. Democrats don't control that much. But likewise, if the President came up with something off the wall like doubling the spending, he wouldn't have carte blanche either. It's a checks and balance thing that serves both parties the humble pie. Neither are overly empowered any more and both are forced to play nice with each other.

Whether you believe it's for the best or not, one thing is certain: It's a new America we woke up to on Wednesday and the polarization of the country that we saw with the last election has crumbled. Blue states and Red states and fixed definitions of party lines have blurred and any changes are likely to result from compromise rather than any one party's agenda.

[interestedreader]

Interesting that Steve Nunn - a moderate republican- lost to a much more conservative democrat - it isn't the party, it's the position. Which is scarier a rabidly conservative democrat (a tight donkey) or a liberal republican (a crazy pachyderm) ?

[Jeremy]

Exactly. The victor in the key race in Montana would probably have been called a Republican if you didn't know he was actually a Democrat. He has very conservative values. In fact, part of his statement after he won was, "I hope there is still a good-sized buck out there, because I am going hunting."

[tkcomer]

It is an interesting thing that happened. Neil Patrick Harris, convinced that the Republicans would hang on, came out of the closet like so many of his rich Republican friends. Brittany and K-Fed, shocked at a Democratic takeover, are getting divorced before the Dems can reinstate the marriage tax penalty.