"It was a thumping"

said President Bush on 8/11/2006 in a news conference

I am so excited that the Democrats took both the House and Senate that I think I am going to microwave (no ovens in India) an Apple Pie tomorrow. Hooray for the American people!

(I've been excited about this since 5:30 am on November 10 when I woke up to hear the initial poll results.)

I hope now we develop a good way to get out of Iraq (I like McGovern and Polk's article in Harper's as a starting point, http://www.harpers.org/index.html), raise minimum wage, fix education, and well, my list goes on and on. . . but, it seems that many people in the US agree that the course we are following is leading to a horrible end for the American people and doing unimaginable damage to those living in other countries (especially Iraq and Afghanistan) and, now, we have decided to change our country's direction. CHEERS!