A new contract with America | Salon.com GOP corruption and an unpopular war bring an end to Republican domination in Washington -- and leave President Bush answering to a new Democratic majority. By Walter Shapiro Nov. 8, 2006 | "This is not a Republican victory. It's not a Democratic victory. It's about the American people making a set of choices." -- House Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich in Marietta, Ga., on election night 1994 Twelve years later, the American people have made another set of choices, erasing the once impregnable Sunbelt-based House conservative majority that Gingrich and his successors worked so hard to maintain. But corruption will do that to you -- the outright money-for-favors corruption that pointed two GOP incumbents toward prison, the see-no-evil corruption that caused the House Republican leadership to wink at Mark Foley's preying on congressional pages and, most of all, the corruption of the idea that Congress is an independent branch of government.

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A Loud Message for Bush - New York Times Everything is different now for President Bush. The era of one-party Republican rule in Washington ended with a crash in yesterday’s midterm elections, putting a proudly unyielding president on notice that the voters want change, especially on the war in Iraq.

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The Democratic House - New York Times There was only one explanation for the crazy-quilt combination of victories around the country that gave the Democrats control of the House of Representatives last night: an angry shout of repudiation of the Bush White House and the abysmal way the Republican majority has run Congress.

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