Today George W. Bush became an official lame duck. The power he had when his party controlled both houses of congress during the first 6 years of his administration has been dramatically curtailed. Meanwhile, the hot button morality issues such as stem cell research and abortion that the Republicans said they wanted to champion have received lip service in emotional campaign ads but remain unresolved. They said they were going to "fix" things like this that were wrong with America if they were in power, but they didn't.
From where I sit it looks like George W. Bush and his neo-con pals have squandered a golden opportunity. They wasted their political largesse on a dubious and probably immoral war in Iraq, ran up a huge deficit, presided over the deepening of the hostiltiy between already divided political camps, and, as the election results reveal, alienated many who had previously voted for them.
And so the political pendulum begins its inevitable swing in the other direction. God bless America.
