What is the direct effects on your daily life should the Dems (a) take & (b)not take control of either house.?
923098
accountability of our government would be great!!!! and i would sleep better every night knowing that Bush wouldn't be able to do anything he wanted without discussion and debate!!!!!\n\ninstead of him saying:  i'm the decider!!!!
195899
gun control, abortion, cable vs. sattelite, repub. vs. dem., gay marriage, legalizing marijuana.
929597
Both do. If you do not follow the party line you get no help for something you want for your home people. The Dem's follow the Dem leadership & the repubs follow theirs. We have no independent people in washington any more. I am old enough to remember Barry Goldwater. He use to say. " I dont care who came up with the idea, If it is good I will vote for it And to hell with the party" I wish we had more people like him now but both parties would make sure you never heard from them.
927081
Nope...the real issues isn't R or D in the Congress..it is the checks and balances between the branches of government. The GOP has had the advantage and used it to force policy into law without restraint. Now the restraint is there...The Dems will and ave had the same problem when they led the Predsidents office PLUS the Congress. A blend is best. .
696345
I don't know about that, but I do know that the dems will now be forced to work WITH the president instead of just shooting off their mouths. Since they have the majority, if nothing gets done, it WILL be blamed on them. They can't simply obstruct any longer.
416579
1. Term limits to keep Congress fresh and not so self serving. House members run every 2 years and are almost always campaigning rather than concentrating on the country.\n2. The abolishment of PACS and other lobbying interests. Let the issues be decided on the merits, not how much money lines the pockets of the lawmakers.
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A.\nB or D.  Probably D.\nC.\nA.  Because you'd want to read a lot of newspapers, magazines, browse the Internet.\nA.\nA.  If they are talking about what I think they are talking about.  We have an Atlantic, a Pacific, and a Central command in the military, no north and south.  But since Mexico has borders on the Gulf (attached to the Atlantic) and the Pacific, maybe all three.\nD.\nA or C.  Definitely not B or D.  I'd say C, but I don't know a huge heck of a lot about Madison.\nB.  I'm only guessing here, but I know that A is not illegal.  The others are all about various dollar amounts, and there might be a limit.\nD.  Althought truthfully, the Korean War, the war in Vietnam, and the stuff we did in El Salvador, Nicarauga, Iran/Iraq, and Africa was mostly about throwing surrogates of the US and USSR against each other.\nB and C, I think.  Look up naturalization.  Of course, you could just arrange to get born here.\nD.  None of these really.  The opposite of of defending our interests is globalizationism.\nA and C. \nC.\nTraditionally, the campaign begins long before any of those things.  How can the people in New Hampshire have any idea of who they will vote for if campaigns haven't started?  People are talking about whether Hillary will run for the Dems now, or will it be that governor of Arizona, and everyone knows McCain will run, but does Rice have any interest, and does Jeb Bush have a chance in '08, or will the nation every trust another Bush in the White House?\nB.\nA.  Freedom of religion, speech, assembly and to petition the government for redress.\nC.  Tough one.  The CIA does have to report to the President, and its budget is known, even if its operations aren't.  Here's the problem, though, the CIA conducts operations that net it money.  And it uses that money to supplement covert operations.  \nC.
804821
Deliberating Democrat deciding, "Don't do demeaning domestic damage."
278532
Depends on their political party
826835
"While majority Democrats will have the power to demand information from the White House and control the federal pursestrings, their constitutional ability to control defense and foreign policy issues will be limited. The president still commands the armed forces and oversees diplomatic dealings with other nations.\n\nFurther, even though Democrats will control the Senate, they will do so only by a narrow 51-49 margin. Democrats will lack the two-thirds majorities needed to override presidential vetoes and enact bills the White House might oppose, and the 60 votes needed to prevent Senate Republicans from filibustering legislation."\n\n\nThey may preach change, but they lack the power to enforce it.
891959
If voter sampling across the country is any indication people were not voting for Democrats, they were voting against Republicans. I am an Independent, but I voted for Republicans at the national level. I did this because I have not seen any positive message for change from the Democrats, but rather just indictments of Republicans being bad. No matter what the reason, Democrats now control the House, but don't count on change. While the Democrats can now make the president a lame duck, they cannot pass sweeping change for the next 2 years. What we can expect going forward is that the president will use his veto power.
827612
It's ending right now. If the Democrats don't take a majority in both houses as predicted, they will certainly make gains. The pendulum is starting to swing the other way. Now all the Democrats need to do is nominate a strong presidential candidate who won't let himself (or herself) be defined by the Republicans.
827025
I think the Reps can take a loss better.  Especially amongst us older folk that remember the Dems had Congress for 20 years prior to the 1994 turn over.
820988
Democrats cant deal with real issues. they have to revert to tactics such as the BIG LIE, distortions, smears, creating scandals, diversionary tactics , fear-mongering, class war-fare and history revision
94405
Democrats would need to win control of Congress in the upcoming elections. If that doesn't happen you can forget about it. The Republicans would never let it happen.
907428
give it a few days then reality will sink in for both...something about reality is very sobering. the rep's will have to face it that their time is going to get much more difficult and the dem's will have to fact it that they have to come up with some plan other than the 'i hate bush' plan.
867166
There is no reason to be any more concerned today than you were yesterday. The Democrats won the House. What did they really win? They won the right to make the president a lame duck. Mr. Bush can still veto any legislation they try to pass and the Democrats do not have a 2/3 Senate majority required to over ride a veto. The Democrats say they want change, so here's their chance. We will see in the coming days if Democrats really want change for all Americans and are willing to reach across the aisle, or if they just want power. Either way do not expect much to change in the next 2 years. If anything this election has almost guaranteed that nothing substantive will happen in that time.\n\nmrfoxhorn: I have to take exception with a few of your statements.\nI am middle class, I do not make 200K a year. I make more money than I did during the Clinton administration and I am paying less in taxes.\nBecause one man in the Republican party solicited a teenage boy, it does not make the entire Republican party gay. This is one the most ridiculous statements Democrats make.\nThe Republicans did not handcuff Mr. Clinton with Monica. Mr. Clinton created his own woes by lying about the affair under oath. Credibility and honesty from our leaders (all of them) may not matter to you, but it is very important to me.\nI do not blame Mr. Clinton for 9/11, I blame terrorists. What I blame Mr. Clinton for in regard to terrorism is his administrations direct efforts to hamper intelligence gathering and sharing. \nThe idea that the Democrats will build up the military stands in stark opposition to their actual record on military spending. How do you think Mr. Clinton was able to balance the budget? It wasn't by cutting social programs, but rather by dessimating the military and intelligence communities.\nDemocrats have won the midterm, you wanted change and now you have it. Pointing fingers at the other side for their failings isn't going to work anymore. Democrats now have to take responsibilty and start showing us what positive change they propose for America. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in this area, but I honestly believe they will fail miserably unless they change their thinking and move forward rather than looking back.