Well... blast

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On the good side, the single-party lock on executive and legislative branches has been broken. Excellent. That was entirely too lopsided.

On the bad side, a single party now controls (barely) both halves of the legislative branch... and in two years it's almost certain they'll hold the executive branch as well...

...and we'll be right back where we started. Crap. Watch the insanity begin again as The Other White Meat begins *their* feeding frenzy.

Can a brother get some *balance*??

All I can hope for is that in two years the Congress splits again.

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We *can* hope, however, that there will be opposition to *more* power-consolidation and reductions in civil liberties...


... which I wouldn't have counted on with a republican congress.

Frankly, I'd rather have a democratic congress and a republican president than the other way around, but we'll see how the wind blows.

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Well, yes. My first line, after all, was expressing delight that the single-party-rule was broken, and that the steamroller has been stopped.

I just don't see that steamroller being backed up if the Democrats take a sweep of the executive and legislative branches in 2008, as some apparently do. It's been stopped, and frankly, that's all we can really hope for in our political system.

I agree with your assessment about which party has seemed better suited to which branch over time.