Great election, America!

[velvet]

I want one just like it!

Breathing a big sigh of relief here in Australia and thinking if it can happen there, it can happen here.

[SoCalDem]

1. Go Aussies.. Boot the Old Coot

:)

[lapfog_1]

2. hope you folks get some rain soon...

somebody running as a green should be able to be put in charge in your part of the world...

The ranchers have to be just about ready for revolution.

[velvet]

5. thank you

The Wide Brown Land sure needs greening. This drought is starting to hurt at the other end of the food chain too - vegetables are getting nearly as expensive as meat.

[lapfog_1]

9. Oh man... that's just f'ing unbelievable.

And, unfortunately, it's where the rest of the world is headed. We won't be able to CHEAPLY feed ourselves anymore as we near the end of the Age of Oil.

[Alamom]

3. Thank you...

(the nightmare is over)



Good Luck to you all !

[Jacklyn75]

4. Thanks and I hope it happens for you too!!!!!! n/t

[oasis]

6. We "thumped" the wacko GOP. They'll never recover.(eom)

[zeemike]

7. Thanks Velvet

And welcome to DU
But we still have the chimp as president for two more years unless we can impeach him and the Dick headed VP. But things are looking up for us now.
And we wish you the same good luck, and some rain also.

[velvet]

8. The Old Coot

He's spinning so hard he could supply all of Sydney's energy needs :-

Most of the analysis of the dramatic results in the US has Iraq front and centre but Mr Howard has a different take. "And the other point I'd make is while Iraq was on people's minds it wasn't the only issue," he said. "A lot of Republican supporters stayed at home becasue they didn't like the fact that their administration was running a Budget deficit, it went against their grain, they're fiscal conservatives."

Mr Howard does not believe the message in this vote is that America should pull out of Iraq, nor does he think the President George W Bush would contemplate such a major change in policy.

The Prime Minister does not accept that the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as defence secretary is an acknowledgement of a war gone wrong. "What has happened in relation to Donald Rumsfeld is in the realm of what you might call 'gesture politics', a recognition that there had to be something done by the President to acknowledge that there is concern about the conduct of the war."

<snip>

And while the Democrats are now in a far more powerful position in Congress, Mr Howard says he does not expect they would try to cut off funding for the war in Iraq, because many of them supported the intial decision to go to war. "There will be debates about it but you should also bear in mind that the two protagonists in the next presidential election, namely Hillary Clinton and John McCain, both voted in favour of Iraq in 2002," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1785149.htm