Bush "Mandate' Will Be Subject To The System.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(ON THE LEFT)

Publication: Investor's Business Daily

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Byline: DAVID S. BRODER

Some of my colleagues in the pundit business have become unhinged by the election results. The always diverting Maureen Dowd of The New York Times wrote the other day that "the forces of darkness" are taking over the country.

The voters' confirmation of Republican-led government brings with it "a scary, paranoid, regressive reality," Dowd said, with "strains of isolationism, nativism, chauvinism, puritanism and religious fanaticism." After a campaign of "blatant distortions and character assassination," Republicans have returned to Washington bent on "messing with our psyches" and punishing "society's most vulnerable: the poor, the sick, the sexually different."

I know that many agree with that view. But before throwing yourself over the cliff, or emigrating to...

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