Second, corporate America and wealthy individuals contribute a lot of money to political campaigns through various channels. Politicians understand this, and few are apt to "bite the hand that feeds them." As such, neither political party wants to do anything that would cut off funding, particularly with a presidential election in just two short years.

Pundits and others are scratching their heads: How did Rove's predictions for a GOP hold on Congress fall so far off target?....

Future Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says scrutinizing the executive branch will be a top priority come January....

So the propaganda battles are in full swing, while most Americans gently snooze the day away or, at best, hoist a glass or three in celebration of the Republican defeat.

Propaganda, you say?  About what?

Apparently one of the wounded Rethugs thinks they own a word I actually coined right there at WTW...

Following up on the post r.e. attempts by business groups to weaken regulatory controls on Corporate Kings, here's a hell of a good candidate for Con of the Year:  the corporate types are crying and crying about how hard it is to comply with those silly things like the Sarbanes-Oxley law.

There was clearly a message from the voters that said, "If you're in political office, it ought to be about public service.''

[Ken was silent on why a national political party, one which calls itself the party of values, would need such a message from voters in order to understand the point]

Congratulations to America and the Democrats for the House and likely Senate victories.  There is some reason to hope that this can stop the slide into a 19th century dictatorship.  But I hope that the Democrats understand they've won an opportunity, a battle if you will, not the war.

While the Democrats had a good night, ballot propositions to raise state minimum wages had a better one: 6 for 6 approved by the voters.

Defense officials, on top of them Rumsfeld, failed and so did the American ambassador. Changing Rumsfeld should have happened a year ago because their work in Iraq did not achieve any results.

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