Well, no, not really.
It's great, this smashing Democratic Party victory, but Bush is still President and all that, so let's not oversell ourselves on what's gonna happen now. Nonetheless, I'm happy just because at minimum (I'm pretty sure) the following will happen:
1. There will be oversight and investigations of where all the money went (Halliburton, CRONIES!, Bechtel) in Iraq.
2. Bush won't get any more anti-Constitution 'conservatives' appointed as federal judges.
3. A slew of feel good bills (on Medicare drugs, minimum wages, hitting the oil companies, ?) passed at least in the House, which (the Senate or) Bush will or won't unpopularly veto.
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