Yay for gridlock! I don't think anyone got a significant enough majority to get anything done. While I am not going to sell all my guns and buy a daisy farm just yet, I do not see the impetus to run out and buy all the magazines. First, because the dems got their majority based on some centrist sounding people who do not want to touch guns with a 10ft pole(or so they say). Second, there is just not enough of a majority to push on things like that. So, my post election predictions:
1. Two years of really contentious confirmation hearings.
2. Two years of shrill cries to impeach bush.
3. Two years of just plain shrill from Pelosi.
4. Bush finally vetoes something.
5. Massive, and I mean massive backlash come 2008. In short, I think yesterday ensured a 2008 conservative white house and congress.
6. Some of the nutroot/Lamontie types hang themselves when they realize that they made Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney the two most powerful guys in the Senate.
7. Nowhere in the next two years will we address the two issue that are destroying our governing system, those being the monster that McCain-Feingold created WRT 527s running campaigns; and the practice of amending bills, especially at the last minute when the amendment has nothing to do with the subject of the bill and is not subject to committe review or public comment.
8. The citizen outrage over immigration will explode, especially once Mexico's civil war does.
I do not consider myself a republican, and really dislike politics as we practice it, but I will welcome a return to a more conservative government in two years. I guess on the plus side if stem cell research gets pushed through maybe we can clone Ronald Reagan.