Well, I am surprised, so who knows. The rest of the country must be a much different politcal atmosphere than LA, which really didn't reflect any big change. People will blame Bush for outcome. And of course, he has to get some blame. However, Republicans leadership in Congress was really weak and they didn't seem to muster much defense to the Dem strategy. Why am I only hearing today that Dem, Alcee Hastings, an impeached federal judge, might chair the Intelligence Committee, a guy who took 150K in bribes? Then, we all know about Jefferson's refrigerator money here. It doesn't seem like the Reps made any counterpunches to accusations of being party of corruption. Hastert is no loss as speaker, a guy who defended Congressmens's rights to hide documents in their offices to avoid prosecution and insulted LA. But Pelosi, now?