I, also, do not want to see a one-party nation. I simply do not want to see the grim ultra-conservatives who are populating what is left of the Republican part have national influence. Let them do as DeMint says, hunker down in their conservative districts and espouse their 'beliefs', but do NOT let a Bush-puppet controlled by a Rove gain control of any important institutions.

Wasn't it a Peanuts comic strip once where Charlie Brown was told, "You are not unimportant...you can still serve as a bad example."?

I am old enough to remember Eisenhower and Rockefeller and various other Republican leaders who, though I disagreed with some of the details of their policies, I was not afraid of them.

The Democrats want you to agree with them, if possible...and to listen and trust them to try to do a decent job.
   The Republican we are really worried about want you to do what they say, whether you agree with them or not. They want to define what is good, evil, not allowed and relevant...according, in many cases, to specific religious principles not representative of millions of others.

I am sure 'the pendulum will swing back' someday, but I hope it will not be like the one in the "pit".