well Pelosi is talking about civility and fairness, which sounds great. I hope she keeps to that. I really don't want it to look like they are saying "it's us now so f-- you." On the other hand, a lot of recent legislation needs to be re-thunk, starting with the incredibly dangerous military commissions act, which does apply to everyone regardless of what they were telling us.
Dana On 11/8/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree, I am looking at it from an analyst's perspective. If they had > failed to re-take either chamber, it would be a signal that Republicans had > indeed created a permanent majority of sorts in Congress, and the Dems would > have to be asking themselves what they could stand for that people would > vote for. They might have spent another decade in the wilderness pondering > that question. > > However, that didn't happen, and now it looks like Dems will capture both > chambers and it will be Republicans who will have to spend at least the next > couple of years in the wilderness wondering what they stand for. > > On 11/7/06, Gruss wrote: > > > > > RoMunn wrote: > > > No, the worst case scenario for the Dems is to fail to re-take either > > > chamber of Congress. > > > > You're looking at it from a Republican partisan's perspective and I'm > > looking at it from an independent's perspective. > > > > Should the democrats fail to take anything, that means next election > > the Republicans will bear all blame AND the democrats will need to > > embrace the "new dems" such as Obama and Ford. The best of all > > world's: both parties face massive change. Good for the Dems, good > > for the Republicans. > > > > If, however, they only take the house then blame is shared and nobody > > changes. > > > > So I either want full dem defeat or full dem success. > > > > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220167 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
