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09-11-2006, 11:34 AM
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Democrats take Senate and House.
Well, it seems that they have got both Houses, officially they have less Senators but the two independants will vote with them, hell one of them is a socialist!
What do you think the changes will be? I've heard that quite a few of the new Democrats are more closely Republican than old-style democrat.
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09-11-2006, 11:46 AM
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I see massive inquiries into the war, corruption etc etc. Anything that'll make the Bush administration look as bad as possible for the 2008 general election.
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09-11-2006, 11:47 AM
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How often do independents get elected over there?
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09-11-2006, 11:49 AM
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09-11-2006, 11:50 AM
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erm, it is you moron. The US either stays in Iraq or leaves. Whether or not Bush still has control is irrelevalent.
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09-11-2006, 11:51 AM
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09-11-2006, 12:16 PM
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Is it official? Has that bloke conceded yet?
I only know what I've heard over the last few days on the workings of the US government, but it seems to me that this will make their government more accountable, since there's a credible opposition, and that can only be a good thing. I guess it just depends on whether the democrats use their new-found power to try and fix the problems that the Republicans have failed to, or whether they'll use it to just make Bush appear as incompitent as possible. I guess that comes down to what will win them the 2008 election (not the former, probably).
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09-11-2006, 12:18 PM
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The two independants are long standing in their community - one was Al Gore's running mate and only stood independantly when he failed to get elected as the democratic candidate.
The democractic socialist, as I understand it, has been a house rep, or at least involved in the area's politics for a long time and was expected to win. Sorry can't remember their names - but it seems entirely reasonable to link them with the Democracts given their voting records.
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09-11-2006, 12:29 PM
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I know one of the independents is Joe Libermann (he ran with John Kerry 2004 as vice president) who has stated he will vote on the side of the democrats so that's an added bonus for them I suppose.
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09-11-2006, 12:34 PM
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The Vermont independant is Bernie Sanders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sanders As an aside his brother is a green party Oxfordshire County Councillor
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09-11-2006, 04:20 PM
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Investigations, election run-up and of course, alot of bi-partisan, "lets sort out Iraq so we can forget about it" politics.
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09-11-2006, 04:28 PM
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09-11-2006, 04:42 PM
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09-11-2006, 05:09 PM
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Conformity before conscience Uniformity before faith! To infinity and beyond! "the reason i took drugs in the first place was because ...i was confused. it's all become clear since" -Rolly. Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration-James Connolly.
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