Something Professor Rowley said tonight about Tuesday's election is sobering:
If President Bush had fired Rumsfeld 2 days BEFORE the election, Allen would have won. If he was going to fire him anyway, he should have at least gotten some benefit out of it.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that. If Allen had won Virginia, the Republicans would still control the Senate.
Another nugget:
One thing we've discovered is that any party controlling an undivided government is never for small-government.
Well said. The Republicans certainly proved this to be true. This leads to a corrollary:
A divided government, reduces the weight of government. A Republican President and Democratic Congress is probably the best balance.
Interestingly, a divided government seems to be the historical norm in the US. Could this be evidence of voter rationality?
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