MSNBC:Election leaves Bush to bob on blue wave

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With Democrats rising, next 2 years will be tough for lame-duck president

A day after President Bush got what he called a “thumping” at the polls, the president reached across the political divide with a promise to work with Democrats, and the new House leadership returned the favor. But the traditional post-election comity belied inevitable confrontations over any number of hard issues, none more difficult than the course of the war in Iraq.

Almost 6 in 10 voters said in exit polls that they disapproved of the war, and Bush immediately made it plain that he got the message, offering up Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s head to victorious Democrats. That doesn’t mean, however, that he intends to capitulate to their demands for a dramatic change of strategy in Iraq, raising the prospect of two years of tense battles over war policy.

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“It’s very important that the people understand the consequences of failure,” Bush said. “And I have vowed to the country that we’re not going to fail. We’re not going to leave before the job is done.”

That isn’t likely to sit well with newly emboldened Democratic congressional leaders.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15626949/

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, Poopy remarked just a while back about how miserable

his little boy's life would be if we took the House.

Little did he understand that we'd take it ALL.

[Straight Shooter]

2. Hey, Little Boots, it's very important that *you* understand the consequences of failure.

For once in your megalomaniacal life, you twit.

[aquart]

3. Define "DONE," George.

Are we done when NO ONE has electricity? Are we done when every school is destroyed and every student in exile or dead? Are we done when the last doctor in the last hospital is killed? The last nurse? When, exactly, are we "DONE"?