This was written in response to GUEST at 11:22 AM. Due to computer problems at work, it is only being submitted now.

Actually GUEST (and I do wish you would come up with a monicker as it gives us GUESTs some legitimacy, though your views will speak for themselves) I do believe that governing from the middle is exactly what this country needs. That does not mean that the legislative and executive branches need to be split amongst the parties, but that the middle of both the Republican and Democrat parties do form an essential center of beliefs and the actions that proceed from those beliefs. Fundamentalist Right-wingers do not control the Republican Party any more than Doctrinare Liberals control the Democrats. They may a role, and create a fuss on occasion, but if you consider that as each party grows in strength, it has to accomdate a greater reach of diverse views, just to stay in power. To do otherwise is called communisim.

As for the rest of your views, I could not disagree more. I detect a rigidity of lanquage that dates you, as it does some of the others. Your world died of it's own corruption, while you were still on bended knee, praying to it. Almost all the white men I know are welcoming progressive change with open arms. The predictions of massive deficits are the same ones we heard for the Gulf War, which lead to the massive prosperity in the years after the War. To claim that the majority of people who have voted or support an action you disagree with, are some form of dupes, leads me to ask; are you sure it was God who told you this?      

I do note that TIME magazine (www.time.com) has just put up a lead article that suprisingly backs virtually everything I wrote to start this thread, and that, plus the plurality of those persons who took the time and cared enough to vote, gives me the feeling that my views have some validity beyond the keyboard of my computer.

And do try and get some sleep, nothing will happen overnight or without proper warning. I promise we won't come to get you until after you've had your beauty rest...