With loss of control in the House, Democrats winning the majority of governor’s mansions that were in contention and the reality that GOP rule in the Senate has been severely eroded if not lost entirely, President Bush and the Republican leadership were sent not so much a message as the entire Western Union company by American voters yesterday. The political equivalent of Hurricane Katrina has left its mark on the Republican Party and the calamitous war efforts of the Bush-Cheney administration.
It happens sometimes in democratic governance.