The democrats have won the majority in the House, and the speculations are immediately rampant about the possible investigations to be launched under the guidance of the prospective new chairmen of committees.
Dick Gephardt, for one, is already assuring that the ranking members, often the most militant of representatives, will behave well under the authority of Nancy Pelosi. The former majority leader, unseated by the 1994 republican tsunami, was trying to strike the most moderate of balance between the urgent need for oversight of the Bush administration and the dangerous temptation of political revenge after 12 years in the opposition, pointedly ignored by the administration.
Speaking of which, one can only wonder how long it will take George Bush to try and control the situation by reminding everyone that he came to Washington "as a uniter, not a divider"? He just might distance himself from his loosing party... as fast as republican candidates who had rubber-stamped his policies tried to run away from him in their latest campaign, realizing belatedly that the Rove charm had ceased to work on the electorate.