If you don't govern from the middle AND keep your house clean, the Pendulum will swing. How the Republicans ever thought they could get away with pay for play when they were already perceived as in Big Business' pocket and ramming every bit of their right wing agenda down the throats of American's regardless of public opinion is beyond me. Changing districting and congressional rules to consolidate power was also a blatant power grab.

Note for left wingers: The swing was won by moderate Democrats. Joe Lieberman whipped the cut and runner. People are pissed about the lousy situation in Iraq, but there was no mandate for cut and run. There is a mandate for the rather obvious we need a new strategy. Iraq was also not top issue as many left wingers would like to pretend. Corruption was issue #1 followed by economy (its the trickle down (on) effect stupid), and Iraq/terror.

Surprising Pelosi seems to get it claiming to have learned from Republican mistakes and wanting to govern from the middle. I'm skeptical but hopeful. Felt we had to make this change, but was worried about how far the pendulum would swing the other way. Hope the current leads hold for the senate, but a 50/50 split would be OK. A continuous string of VP votes would do nothing but harm Republicans as a futile example of determination to ignore opinion outside the administration. 2 "Independent" Democrats should aslo keep the leftwingers in check. It's time for Bush to govern like he promised in the first election - build consensus.

Can't wait for some heat on CEO pay. Read the articles on the pissed off bottom Half? The bottom half of the top 1% that is. A new kind of class warfare - the merit class versus the connected class (could it be nerds vs greeks or mentally adept vs socially adept?).