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11.10.06 @ 12:01AM

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With all due respect to Mr. Tyrrell, I disagree.

House seats have become less competitive over the years as both parties become more and more sophisticated in their gerrymandering, making it far, far more difficult to flip a seat from the party for which it was designed to the opposition. The Democrats did just that.

With that said, it's fair to say that the verdict of this election is not "We want Liberal Rule."

For the Democrats to claim that mandate, they would have had to run on something more substantive than "Republicans suck, and we're not Republicans."

What happened is pretty easy to describe:
-- Voters to Republicans: "You guys are fired."
-- Voters to Democrats: "You guys get two years to show us you deserve the job."
-- Bradly Roger Bettin, Sr.
Cocoa, Florida

Thank you for your words of encouragement. In these dark days, when even Rumsfeld and Bush wobble and weave, we need to hear words of reason to steady our resolve. The media drumbeat within their self-created bubble seems to have engulfed the whole country. However, like all bubbles, the walls are thin and transparent. We anxiously await the revelation of the Democrat party's true colors.
-- Stephen W. Brown

I certainly hope he is right, for all us freedom-loving folks dotted around the world. I hope this means a new order Republican Party will rise from the ashes in time to fight off the new emboldened Democrat order. As we continue to endure the "New Labour" new order started here in Britain in what feels like a millennia ago and as we see the new "wishy-washy" PR led new Conservatism order attempting to rise, Phoenix-like, I indeed hope Mr. Tyrrell is right.
-- Graham Constable
Oxford, England

After reviewing some of the takes your article authors have presented, I want to encourage you and your submitters to continue to believe that this is just a normal mid-term reaction and not really a significant impeachment of where the country has gone with a Republican Congress that failed in its responsibility to hold the administration in check and to provide balance for ALL Americans.

No sir. There is no need to consider changing anything. I know that they say a definition of insanity is to continually do the same thing and expect different results, but, in this case, I think that can be ignored. No, instead, I believe that the Republicans and Conservatives should continue to play to the extreme social right and alienate those middle of the road people in American who don't vote anyway.

Therefore, please continue to see how there is nothing wrong and everyone just shifts chairs on the Titanic. There is no lesson to learn from this loss. It was just the happenstance of a few corrupt individuals that somehow were able to escape the notice of other members. I want to make one thing absolutely clear... I hope the VERY FIRST action done by Speaker Pelosi is the limitation of Rep. William Jefferson to a position where he is only allowed to vote, but has absolutely no oversight or authority. I would love to see him impeached and removed, however, as we know, there is a presumption of innocence and until there is proof through a conviction, I guess we just have to allow the voice of his constituents to be heard.

I am, however, incensed by his re-election. Probably more so than any conservative. The reason? Because, as a Democrat I believe that my party should reflect my beliefs and values, and when someone of my own party lets us down I cannot explain it away as acceptable when you compare it to another party. No, I, personally have been betrayed and expect more of my party. I wish this was true of the majority of Americans, but they seem to be content with excusing theirs because of those others.

Keep up the good work and do what you have been doing the past few years! It has worked wonders!
-- Darren Peterson

I greatly fear you have not appreciated the potential of this election to produce a Democrat President in 2008. Mr. Bush is admittedly not a popular man and very soon we will be faced with an endless Waxman witch hunt getting headlines every single day. Whether it turns up some horrendous scandal will be unimportant. The media will cover it as though that is a given and media hysteria will reign. "The Culture of Corruption" imported from Arkansas by the Clintons will now become a Republican invention. This constant and ruthlessly negative and inflammatory coverage and rabble-inciting remarks by Democrats, which will begin very shortly, will cause a leftwing radical to be elected President. The Democrats who ran a moderate campaign will be disenfranchised by their party because moderation is not a leftwing, radical, Democrat virtue.

The Country has made a titanic shift to the left.
-- Jay W. Molyneaux

I cannot for the life of me understand why Washington elites like yourself continue to push for Mike Pence as minority leader. I am writing to my congressman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner to encourage him to vote for John Boehner. Mike Pence is one of the reasons for the Republican midterm disaster. He has continued to advocate amnesty for illegal aliens with a guest worker program in spite of the resistance to these programs by mainstream America. It's no wonder the Republicans lost the midterm, they are politically tone deaf and remain so. By the time the 2008 election rolls around the war in Iraq will be a non-issue and the number one concern on voters minds will be illegal immigration. The Republicans in their usual feckless manner will have selected as minority leader someone who is on the wrong side of this issue. I guarantee you that if Mike Pence is selected as minority leader and gets together with Jorge Bush to pass illegal alien amnesty and a guest worker program the Republican Party will have relegated itself to permanent minority status if it survives at all.
-- Paul Martell

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