It's Over for Bush

This is a splendid article on the election and what it means.

However, we would say that of all the groups that makeup America's body politic, it was independent moderates who came out in droves and tipped the election for the Democrats, by voting for sanity and against crime and corruption among official Washington, not to mention State Houses across the nation.

We would also like to put further emphasis on a point made in the linked article: Bush and Cheney are toast, whether that fact has sunk in or not. This could well make them more dangerous than ever.

American vigilance must, if anything, be heightened during the next two years. Sighs of relief the world over are to be expected, but we must not allow ourselves to return to the usual American trance.

It's Over for Bush:

The year 2006 will long be remembered as the Great Retribution--or perhaps the Deliverance Election. George W. Bush's presidency is toast. Bush's potential to further harm the Republic has been greatly reduced. Most Americans stopped believing anything he said a good while back. This was their opportunity to tell him to his face. And they did, with such force and breadth that maybe even he and his cronies heard them.

Much credit goes to the voters and the Democratic Party. Not many off-year elections move history in a fundamental way, but this one did. Americans have elected an opposition that can now check the Administration's destructive policies and investigate its actions at home and abroad, while at the same time putting forth policies that begin to reverse the damage of the past six years. African-American and Latino voters were crucial to the Democratic victory, with a significantly higher percentage of Latinos than in the last midterms voting against the Bush agenda.