I know I wasn’t the only person to catch the puke fest held at the White House between President Bush, Speaker Pelosi and other key Democrats as they muddled their way through a press conference trying to convince the American public that they CAN find common ground, they CAN work together toward a greater cause and the CAN put partisan politics aside to achieve great goals in these last 2 years of Bush’s Administration.

I needed a case of barf bags just to get through it! Who exactly did they think they were fooling?

The very same day as the Blue-Tie love fest, you’ve got this from Congressman Waxman:

“I’m going to have an interesting time because the Government Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything,” Waxman said Friday, three days after his party’s capture of Congress put him in line to chair the panel. “The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose.”

The man was practically drooling. Hell, I think he was drooling.

Have we learned nothing from the Clinton era? How much time wasted? How much money wasted? How trivial we must have appeared to the rest of the world as the collective “We” revelled in every single dirty detail about blow jobs in the back hallways of the White House.

The Dems have an axe to grind - we get it. We get that they want revenge. We get that they have an agenda - - we know that the next two years will be a huge waste of time during a time, that history will most likely prove, we don’t have the precious time to waste.

This time - - right here, right now.. today would be the absolute best time for the Democrats to stand up and stop the cycle of madness and partisan politics and PROVE that they really want to be the party of progress and change. Do you think it will happen? No, it won’t. The Democrats have a rare moment in time to show that they want to move forward with agendas that are BEST for this country and its people. I realize the temptation to sharpen the donkey axe on the elephant stone is great… HUGE and hard to resist - - but for crying out loud - resist already! Stop the madness!

I know - I’m optimistic. I always have been. My father once told me that was one of my best attributes and one of my greatest character flaws.

I’m not giving Bush, or his Administration a pass. This is not to say that this Administration is squeaky clean and that there aren’t issues that do need to be investigated in order to understand how and why certain things happened - however, in a day and age where you have the head of MI5, just today, revealing just how scary the terrorist threat is becoming in the West - - you have this Waxman monkey STILL musing about the controversy over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name!

Obsess, much?

Ironic that Pelosi and Reid sit in the Oval Office insisting that they are progressively looking FORWARD, when the rest of their party is looking backward, standing in a pool of self-indulgent drool.

Count John McCain in for the Presidential 2008 race. Is the GOP willing to do what it takes to get the independent and moderate vote back on their site? Is McCain the guy to do that for them?

“A lot of people look at the Republican Congress and say the problem is they only took half measures of which McCain wanted to do in full measure,” said former Bush adviser Mark McKinnon, who worked on the 2004 campaign.

He said McCain had been a “leader for years” in those areas.

“All the relevant issues in the Congress now — spending reform, ethics reform — are issues that John McCain has been talking about for a long time,” he said.

This will be the first Presidential race in 80 years where no President, or Vice President, is running for election - the playing field is wide open.

Also on the short list (growing longer every day) is Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa.

The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld has a lot of Republicans stratching their heads over the timing of it all. One of the biggest problems this Administration has experienced with its GOP base is the handling of the war in Iraq. Contrary to popular opinion - not every Republican or Moderate was thrilled with the way this Administration has conducted itself, and many feel that an earlier resignation from Rumsfeld - prior to the elections, may have gone a long way toward re-establishing faith that this Administration wants to do the right thing.

“The White House said keeping the majority was a priority, but they failed to do the one thing that could have made a difference,” one House GOP leadership aide said Thursday. “For them to toss Rumsfeld one day after the election was a slap in the face to everyone who worked hard to protect the majority.”

Exit polling suggested that an overwhelming majority of voters disapproved of the administration’s handling of the war in Iraq, and members and aides were frustrated with the timing of the announcement because an earlier resignation could have given them a boost on the campaign trail, they believe.

“They did this to protect themselves, but they couldn’t protect us?” another Republican aide said yesterday. - GOP furious about timing of Rumsfeld resignation

The AP is reporting Jim Webb as the winner of the Virginia senate race - giving control to the Democrats in the Senate.

Allen over at Allen’s A Team is inclined to believe it.

Lawyers have been dispatched