The Lesson the Republicans Forgot
Americans woke up and realized their government had been lying to them for 6 years. They saw the depth of Republican lies and corruption and they voted accordingly.
The Republicans forgot a very important lesson:
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.â€
--Abraham Lincoln, the best Republican President
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2006 Elections | Accountability | Corruption | Government | Politics
But now the shoe's going to be on the other foot...
But now the shoe's going to be on the other foot, and the last time the Democrats controlled both houses of congress (the first two years of the Clinton administration) it was a disaster. It led to the GOP takeover in 1994. The Democrats must be able to work together this time, and hold the line, have partisan unanimity on as many of the issues as possible, in order to convince the public that this new congress works. Otherwise it'll be "throw the bums out" time again in two years and we'll be back where we started.
This is made even more important by the fact that the Democratic nominee for President is almost certainly going to come from this new congress (Hillary, Obama, Kerry, Biden or Dodd). The GOP are going to do everything possible to call this a do-nothing congress that won't deserve to have one of its members promoted to the white house.
So the stakes are high. This new congress is either going to work or the american electorate is not going to expand its power in 2008.