Relief is Palpable in Europe
A great sigh of relief has swept across Europe as the Senate and House fell under Democratic control. That relief is seasoned by a concern, mirrored by American worries, about what comes next in Iraq.
A great sigh of relief has swept across Europe as the Senate and House fell under Democratic control. That relief is seasoned by a concern, mirrored by American worries, about what comes next in Iraq.
My own absentee ballot went off in the mail a month ago to Montana and who would have guessed that my sparsely populated and wind-blown Big Sky country would turn out to be such a national player? Last-gasp results from Montana and Virginia decided the Senate and fortunately, both races were conceded rather than contested.
But The Guardian-UK newspaper typifies Europe's reaction;
When the remaining recounts and legal challenges are over, the Democrats may even have narrowly won control of the Senate too. Either way, the results change the political landscape in Washington for the final two year…