Come down Mr. Democrat. The election is over.
Stop blowing in the wind. Stop reading polls.
For a couple of years, I've followed politics at Real Clear Politics. See Election 2006: What Happened and What Does it Mean? By John McIntyre:
"The vote last Tuesday was not necessarily a vote for a Murtha-style withdrawal, but it was a clear and unambiguous vote against the status quo policy in Iraq and President Bush's leadership on Iraq in particular.
The public recognized that a vote for a Republican Congress would in fact be a de facto vote for a continuation of the current Iraq policy.
In simplest form, then, the mid-term election was a vote of no-confidence by the country on the Bush administration's Iraq course of action.
That is the reason Democratic gains are potentially far softer and less far reaching than many Republican or Democratic partisans appreciate.
This election was not a vote in favor of Democrats, nor was it a blanket repudiation of the Iraq war as some on the left have mistakenly assumed.
The only consensus in the country is the "stay the course" policy in Iraq had to change, but the shape that change takes moving forward is where it will start to get very tricky for Democrats.
With control of Congress, Democrats will no longer be able to pass the buck on where they truly stand on Iraq."
No more free ride on Iraq.
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