I've forgotten who said it (Krugman?) but the likely improvement seen as a result of a DP victory in the House and/or Senate can be summarized by two words: subpoena power.
On 10/30/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Walsh tracked down the Democratic candidates' positions on the Iraq War in 22 races that Rahm Emanuel selected for intervention and found a majority of them to be not only against immediate withdrawal but also even against a timetable: "Election 2006: The Fix is Already In: How Rahm Emanuel Has Rigged a Pro-War Congress," 14 October 2006, <http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh10142006.html>. To top it all off, according to the New York Times, Democrats in key races are running to the right on social and economic issues in domestic policy: Shaila Dewan and Anne E. Kornblut, "In Key House Races, Democrats Run to the Right," 30 October 2006, <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30dems.html> -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
-- Jim Devine / "War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, / The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade, / And, to those royal murderers, whose mean thrones / Are bought by crimes of treachery and gore, / The bread they eat, the staff on which they lean." -- Percy B. Shelley
