I’m pleased with the election results. Republicans weren’t doing anything with their control of the House, and had given in to corruption and laziness and yes-man behavior for the White House. So, I say, “Off with their heads!” As a Republican, I’m ashamed of their arrogance and inaction. Wanting the Democrats to take charge is like wanting the Babylonians to conquer Israel…which, as it turns out, was what God wanted to happen.

Now it will be fun mocking Nancy Pelosi and rest of the liberal, disorganized Dems as they take over the House. They have no idea what they’re going to do, as opposed to the Republicans, who were united only in what they were not going to do–which is, be responsible legislators. The Dems will at least be earnest.

And the investigations will be fun and helpful and, in my view, necessary for our democracy. This time next year, we’ll be fully engulfed in hearings on the Tom Foley scandal, Halliburton, CIA torture factories, and general what-the-heck-is-happening-in-Iraq hearings. Republicans deserve to be put on the spot, and they will be…by grandstanding Democrats eager for the spotlight. The hearings will make us mad. But they’ll be good for the country. Sort of. Or maybe not. We’ll see.

I am glad that (so it looks) the Republicans retain control of the Senate. The Senate is, for the most part, a higher calibre of people, more classy and thoughtful than the messy House.

I, personally, hope the Democrats take the House back. I will cheer if they do. (I won’t be disappointed if they also sieze the Senate, but I’d rather they didn’t.) The Republicans have shown themselves to be unworthy and incompetent, and have given in to corruption. Let the Democrats take over until they’re corrupted (it probably won’t take as long).

With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, we’ve lost any checks and balances. Which is why George Bush hasn’t used a veto to stop pork-barreling or anything else. The Republicans in Congress and the Republicans in the White House just give each other whatever they want. If the Democrats are in charge, Bush will finally begin using his veto power, and Congress will finally start pushing back with more than token resistance.

Plus–I gleefully welcome some Congressional investigations. The word is that Nancy Pelosi has warned her colleagues that she doesn’t want the House to become a courthouse. But some investigations will occur, and they will become political circuses with lots of self-righteous Democratic grandstanding (not unlike the eight tedious years–eight years!–of Clinton-era Republican hand-wringing over Whitewater). But I say to the Dems, “Go to it!”

I want to see Congressional investigations on some issues where I feel the Bush Administration has shown itself to be incompetent, unethical, and occasionally evil. Issues like how my beloved country embraced state-sponsored torture, the Abramoff scandal, declaring ourselves exempt from the Geneva Conventions, sinful tax cuts for the rich. And I want bright spotlights on the whole Iraq War Debacle, for which history will rightfully shame Bush.

I want heads to roll. Republican heads. And since that’ll only happen if Democrats wield the sword, I’m all for it. God often used pagan nations to discipline Israel, so I’m okay with using Democrats to discipline Republicans (since Republicans utterly refuse to discipline their own, unless they trail off-message or are powerless, low-level pawns).

I have abandoned any notion that the Republicans are the “Christian party” or the “family values” party. Both parties are secular entities, and I place little hope in either. So let them trade power back and forth. Doesn’t matter a pittance to me anymore.