"The cheering can be heard not just in America itself but around the planet"

[steve2470]

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/martin_kettle/2006/11/america_has_spoken.html


America has spoken, George Bush told the nation this morning two years ago, and it had given him its trust and his confidence. He would continue his policies at home and abroad, buoyed by the public's endorsement. Now, two years further on, America has spoken again - but this time in a very different tone and with the opposite conclusion, issuing a direct warning to the leader it re-elected 24 months ago to change his policy in Iraq. The cheering can be heard not just in America itself but around the planet.

So the big question this morning and over the coming weeks and months is this: which George Bush will respond to the American voters' verdict in the 2006 midterms? Will it be the same apparently humble and responsive president who said he heard the popular verdict in 2004 and would act on it? Or will it be a defiant president, who opts to spend his final two years in office in conflict with the new legislature that Americans have chosen to represent them?

If Vice-President Dick Cheney is any guide, these will be two years of defiance. Speaking in Colorado Springs last Saturday, Cheney announced that the administration would continue "full steam ahead" with its policy in Iraq, irrespective of the results of yesterday's elections. "It may not be popular with the public," he told ABC News. "It doesn't matter, in the sense that we have to continue what he think is right. That's exactly what we're doing. We're not running for office. We're doing what we think is right."

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[Raine]

1. For the first time in six years

we can hold up our heads before the rest of the World instead of having to skulk around in shame.

I guess the misadministration though still has learned it's lesson on hearing what Americans have to say. :eyes:

[tridim]

2. This election has swung Earths pendulum, it's that massive

The fallout for the Repukes/Neocons/PNAC is going to be global.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

3. Time to check and balance Cheney's ass

And by "Cheney's ass", I mean George Bush, of course.