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Americans want change! But will they get it?(Inside Track)

The New American

| November 27, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

American voters "spoke for change, and they spoke for a new direction," Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) observed at a Washington news conference the day after the midterm elections. Pelosi, who earned a 31 percent cumulative score in THE NEW AMERICAN'S "Conservative Index" for the 109th Congress, is expected to become the new Speaker of the House, replacing GOP Rep. Dennis Hastert.

The November 7 congressional elections were widely viewed as a referendum on President Bush's policies, particularly the war in Iraq and the president's insistence that we "stay the course" there. The American people do not want to stay the course, and they view the problem as extending beyond the president himself to the GOP congressmen who have had majority control of both houses of Congress in recent years. At least, that's how Americans voted on the November 7: their wrath against GOP lawmakers gave the Democrats majority control of both the House and Senate.

Now that the American people have voted the GOP rascals out of office, will they get a "new direction," and will they get the "new direction" they want? Campaign rhetoric aside, at the national level the ...

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