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Tuesday's ultimatum.(on the right)(elections in the United States)
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 8
PARTISANS (both Democrats and Republicans) grieve especially, on Election Day Plus One, for individual legislators defeated, men and women, however few, who inspired confidence for whatever reason. Tenacity and right-mindedness, in the case of Rick Santorum. Geniality of intellect and an aura of idealism-in-hand, in the case of Jim Talent.
But on the big picture, what should one say, other than that if it hadn't happened, democratic governance would have been guilty of being asleep at the wheel?
Consider the event. A rejection of the policies of an incumbent president in Year Six is habitual. If it can happen to FDR and to Ike, it can happen to, well, anybody. President Bush gave over the last two days of the campaign to a single jibe: "They don't like ____? Ask them what their plan is."
And if the campaign was mostly about the Iraq War, he made a solid point. Is Nancy Pelosi the voice of the opposition in the House? If so, what exactly is her plan? She is against the war and was against it from the beginning, but what is she now to do, if the results of November 7 truly reflect national opposition to what we are trying to accomplish in Iraq?
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The challenge posed by President Bush bounces back at him. What--the dissenters at the voting booths were entitled to ask--is your plan? If there is dissatisfaction, it is consummated by the replacement of the executive team. But these things do not happen in off-year elections.
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