Politics: USA: Democrats take control of House of Represenatives, Pelosi probable new Speaker

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DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES;
REPUBLICANS RETAIN CONTROL OF SENATE.

MarketWatch's William L. Watts, "Democrats seen winning House" (11:37 PM EST, Nov7,2k6)

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Democrats were on track to gain control of the House Tuesday night, ending 12 years of Republican rule in a mid-term election that will likely re-shape the final two years of George W. Bush's presidency.
CNN, MSNBC and the Associated Press all projected that Democrats would win 15 or more seats, ensuring the party a majority in the 435-seat House.
"We are now tonight on the brink of a great Democratic victory," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is in line to become House speaker.

News organizations projected that Democrats would defeat incumbent Republican senators in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Rhode Island, while two of their own most vulnerable candidates fended off GOP challengers.

The Democrats won apparently a referendum on the Presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War; but I think it is the prescription needed to stop a graft-ridden and corrupt Republican caucus in the House of Representatives, whose leadership never firmly disciplined the members and continued the practice of ear-marking financial bills with long-lists of special funding to be spent in the incumbents districts (this applies to Democrats as well). It also accounts for the Republicans' failure to grant the President line-by-line veto of earmarkings in appropriations bills that reached his desk in the White House. Shame on the House Republicans! Let them simmer in their ignominy for a long miserable spell.

-- Politicarp

-- Politicarp