It's 8:44 PST... If the perdictions of the news channels stick ( even FOX News now seems to think so) the Dems will take the House of Reps back. We will have the first female Speaker of the House in Nancy Pelosi.
She will head a Democratic Party that includes not only liberals, but newly elected moderates and conservatives as well. She will also doubtless be set upon by professional right wing media mouthpieces as an anti-American (competing with the specter of Hillary) who wants to get out of Iraq next Tuesday and abolish heterosexual unions or whatever. It won't matter what she really says; it will be twisted about by Limbaugh and others to makes her out to be anti-military, anti-flag, anti-religion, anti-NASCAR, and perhaps even a bit soft on the issue of giving mother's milk to newborns.
Hopefully, intelligent people outside the Bay Area will ignore most of that hyperbole (much as Democrats need to ignore some of the more reckless anti-GOP blather on Air America) and give her a chance to show that Pelsoi doesn't glow in the dark and might actually demonstrate she is as patriotic an American as somebody from the Heartland, if given a modicum of allowence for being a little to the left of folks in her own party and the GOP.
I sure hope so.
I actually hope the Democrats don't take the Senate, because I'd hate to see William Kristol cry.
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