my 2 cents worth

A'Texan' IS PULLING IN HIS HORNS
It seems to me that the 2006 election has already had a great effect on the country. Every once in a while, in a nation's history, there will be a 'defining election' in which the outcome makes a great difference in the direction that events are moving. One such election was 2000 when a certain faction of the Republican party was able to seize control of the country.

Now I am reading that the man in the White House is having to change some of his policies, simply because he can no longer continue to act as if he's dictator.

1. He's had to withdraw many nominations of ultra conservative or religiously oriented judges. They would never have been confirmed by the new Senate.

2. He's had to take John Bolton out of the United Nations because he knows the Senate won't approve him.

3. He's decided not to seek new permission for warrantless spying.

4. He's considering signing the new minimum wage.

Democracy should not be simply defined as "free elections." That was your elementary school concept of what democracy is. But there is no denying that an election can be stick in the hands of the people to, now and then, spank a government that has gotten too big for its britches.

Maybe American democracy has saved itself, at least for a while.