Okay..so I get the news a bit later here (time difference and I have to sleep SOMETIME). I was biting my nails all day yesterday with Senate controll hanging in the balance. Woke up this morning tired and cranky..and then I read the news. I am a happy woman right now.
Some history making things as a result of this election:
- 1st Female Speaker of the House in US history: go kick some ass Pelosi
- 1st Congressman of Muslim faith: Rock on Minnesota's Keith Ellison
- 1st Socialist Senator: Vermont's Bernie Sanders and he is an Independent!!
- 1st record number of female Senators: 16!!!!
- 1st Black Governor of Massachusetts in its 218 year history: Deval Patrick - a man who ran a campaign that refused to run smear ads or use dirty tactics
- All 6 female Senators up for re-election WON
On a happy note as well... Adios to Donald Rumsfeld.
All of this jumping up and down on my part is my intial reaction to the election. Going forward now I just hope the Dems and Independents can actually get some stuff done without looking like mean winners. What the Democratic Party does now will greatly influence the 2008 elections. Let's just hope the Dems accomplish something or at least try to accomplish something..
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WOOHOO! Oh, and not that this is likely to happen, but if it does...if Bush is impeached and Cheney goes too, Pelosi is president. A liberal Californian from San Fran. Holy crap.
Sadly Pelosi and rep Conyers have both said that impeachment is "off the table".
Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the grounds for impeachment in a report called "The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War"
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