Reply #105: Call it a counterrevolution

[jmowreader]

At the beginning of 1994, the Democratic Party controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, and the Republicans thought that one-party rule was the worst thing in the world. They went into the election season selling this concept with the strangely-named Contract with America, which was actually a contract ON America. In December 1994, the Republicans were set to open Congress in January with a majority in both houses, and they chose Newt Gingrich, who is the last individual a Democrat would ever want running anything, as their leader and face-to-the-world.

It's the beginning of 2006. The Republican Party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, and it turns out that the Republicans were right--one-party rule is the worst thing in the world...if the Republicans are in charge.

If we do things right--and that's a massive "if"--we can flush the Republican majorities out of Congress and start working on George Bush.