Two Days Later

Well, the elections have been over for roughly 36 hours now, and the Democratic Party has taken majorities in both the House and Senate.

Rumsfeld is out as SecDef; that happened yesterday.

What's going to change, I don't know.

This isn't the outcone I was hoping for, but it was not unexpected. The Republicans did their best this past two years to annoy everybody. They brought this defeat on themselves.

The interesting thing to see is what changes will manifest in the two parties now. Most of the freshman Democrats are more conservative than candidates of years past, but the people who will be ascending to the high-profile leadership and committee positions are members of the liberal idealogue old guard. The Congress will move to the left - but how far? And keep this in mind - Congress doesn't have to do anything to raise taxes. The four years of a Republican-controlled government never did succeed in making the Bush tax cuts permanent.

And the Republicans are going to have to sort themselves out. I think this election was a repudiation of "big government conservatism" - but will the party leadership take the hint?

What this was not was a debate on our course in Iraq. Because no alternative was offered, just complaints.

We shall see...