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To: LindyBill who wrote (18047)	11/30/2003 3:41:44 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793625

From now on, as Tony Blankley observed in The Washington Times, if you work at an interest group and you want to know what's going on with your legislation, you have to go to the Republicans. The Democrats don't even know the state of play. A sword that cuts two ways. They will have nobody to blame for their mistakes. The only drawback is that now, as the governing party, they have to betray some of the principles that first animated them. A major understatement. The majority will ossify. It will lose touch with its principles and eventually crumble under the weight of its own spoils. The bad news for Democrats is that, as Republicans can tell you, the ossification process is maddeningly slow. After the New Deal, it took 60 years. Things happen faster in the modern world. We’ll see. My sense is that given enough rope, the extremists will hang themselves. Now they have the rope, only questions are how long they will take to do it, and whether they will hang the rest of us as well. I kind of liked the idea of having one party control the executive and the other the legislature. Kept a bit of a lid on Government, always a good thing.