SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT ELECTION DAY 2006...

All of the political ads have been broadcast a million times on radio and television and the voters have supposedly spoken -- vox populi vox dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God). For at least a week now we will be subject to a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking by the television political commentators and the radio talk show hosts. It is interesting though how I hear from liberal friends and acquaintances that their nemesis President George Bush "got a whacking" and how a new political day will be rising....the Republican dark ages are finally over! Happy days are here again! While the Democrats have taken over both houses of congress, the reality is that really nothing has changed, nor will their supposed work in Washington DC will change. The Congressmen and Senators elected to office this round are the same people who have merely exchanged their ties with one another.

The Kool Aid-Cindy Sheehan liberals are the ones who are really deluding themselves as they dance to "Happy Days Are Here Again." They have convinced themselves that just because a new shop sign has been installed in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, their newly elected coalitions are sure follow an anti-war pull out the troops from Iraq strategy. It ain't gonna happen. The Democrats have two years to prove they can improve the situation, and must do so following a centrist position if they are to be kept in office beyond 2008 simply because the Democrat majorities elected this time around does not constitute a mandate. Democrats have 229 seats in the House, 11 more than the number necessary to hold the barest of majorities in the 435-member chamber...last session the Republicans held a similar majority. In the Senate, they hold only 51 seats, with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman -- now an independent -- with the ability to go either way. And seeing how his fellow Democrats loudly took a political gamble by abandoning him during his run as an independent against bagillionaire Ned Lamont, chances are that Lieberman can very well use a trump card on many issues and is no longer beholden to those who abandoned him. (The best thing for these former Lieberman allies would have been for them to simply not get involved and stay neutral during the Lamont/Lieberman campaign in case Lieberman won.)

Lieberman's win was due in part to Republican support in Connecticut, but also reflects normal thinking centrist Democrats who have not bought into the Kool Aid-Anti War politics of whackjob Cindy Shehaan funded by Gagillionaire-cum-philanthropist Hungarian leftist American politics meddler George Soros.

The only mandate which may have been communicated by the American electorate is this: While the United States clearly accomplished its goal of toppling the modern day Hitler Saddam Hussein who repeatedly violated United Nations resolutions, has established and help encourage the formation of a democratic coalition government in Iraq, the bottom line is that it must withdraw its troops and allow the Iraqis to defend their newly found democracy as soon as possible and grow it. The only role is for United States and NATO to continue to try to keep the peace between the fighting Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish factions.