Time to conduct a thorough and truly independent investigation of 9/11.

I am a republican, but thank goodness that more women are getting in there to take charge.

I hope the Dems understand that this country is sick and tired of the partisanship in DC and want somethings to get done. I voted Democratic to send a message to Bush & Co about Iraq and the right wing nuts controlling domestic politics. Don't make me regret my vote.

If impeachment and investigations are all that we can expect from this leadership team, then Democrats can expect to lose in 2 years. Americans want results.

Democrats would rather spend tens of billions of dollars on foreign companies working in the middle east instead of the American company Haliburton. I call that anti-Americanism.

It causes me concern that Nancy Pelosi has stated that Halliburton, CIA, and tobacco companies are early targets for them. They need to get on with real business. Voters wanted change. Not adults acting like children.

I find no comfort in the fact the the priority of the new majority is for investigations into the former majority. While these are important issues they do not move the country forward. These items should be investigated but how about an agenda for progress?

This country is about to go to hell in handbasket.

I pray the dems don't focus their energy on the tired debate about the rationale for the Iraq war.

We know the intelligence was cherry-picked and we know the administration stretched the truth. That's what the election was about.

Dems - Please let that one go! There's much more important work to do.

Now we can move on to the next election and evict the rest of the Republican team from the White House.....it's time for reasonable changes,time to get out of the Iraq civil war, time to focus on American issues -- the economy and immigration....

100 hours of non-stop disaster...maybe Bush will be able to find his veto pen! Only two years til the next election...sigh.

Congrats! You ran a great Campaign Ross.

Thank heaven there will finally be people trying to figure out what the heck is really going on - this has been a frightening time for foreign policy, but when people learn how busy this crowd has been messing around with the actual structures of government and domestic issues, all hell will break loose.

It was ok to spend 8 years and $70 million tax payer dollars investigating the entire Clinton family right down to their cat, but the GOP doesn't think we should learn why Halliburton has walked away with billions unaccounted for, and why our men and women lacked basic equipment?!

I would really hope that the Democrats do not waste this opportunity getting revenge on the Republican Party. I am elated that they have taken control of House, but if the next two years are all about attacking Republicans instead of solving this countries problems, I will gladly welcome the GOP back in 2008.

Personally, I think the American people just publicly executed our economy and our national security. But, not being one to think the worst, we'll see if the American people cope well with being France. C'est la vie.

Oh boy...here come the nuts!

God help us.

say your prayers! Let's see where this democratic house takes us. Lots of animosity directed towards certain people and/or companies, but the country as a whole? The war? The possible amnesty for millions of illegals? The war on terrorism at a global level? The situation in Latin America with Chavez? That is, the leftism of both North and South America now that the democrats have taken over the house and possibly the senate?

What is their agenda? What is their position on many of the issues that directly affect the USA?

Moreover, President Bush seems disoriented at this moment. He seems to not know what is his next move in this chess game, now that the democrats have gained so many seats in the house and the war in Iraq is not developing into a victory for the USA.

The President too seems abandoned by those who were supposedly on his side.

Let's all work together for a better America regardless of political parties and personal grievences.

Pathetic.

so this is the "new direction?"

HERE COME THE CLOWNS.

They will not be bipartisan. They will say anytime they are disagreed with that the republicans aren't willing to work with them. Stand by for a recession and higher tax burdens. They socialists have arrived.

No one forged the Niger documents.

The only person who lied about Niger was Joe Wilson.

Okay, let's not move forward and address the issues that need addressing. Let's dwell in the past and do the "pay back" thing and waste time and taxpayers money. If the dems get the Senate we can look forward to the next two years as lame duck and nothing significant will be achieved and that's sad. All the pettiness between the two parties will be in full force. It's sad and it makes me sick!

This is the scariest lineup that I have EVER seen! Good-bye decent America, I knew thee well...

Thank god, we will finally see some oversight that was non-existent under the gop.

Good morning,
Well I didn't expect what i'm reading about "Paybacks" so vindictive. I thought they were going to try progress not spend time on trying to get even. Time is money and we need them to be focused on current issues facing the country not wasting our money/time getting even. The only one that I read that I like is this John Dingell (D-Mich.)he didn't mention trying to get even with republicans he is trying to focus on the health care problem. Come on now, lets keep our focus on current issues and stop this getting even stuff.

It is sad that the reason the democrates want to come on board as our "leaders" is for "retribution".
When will our leaders grow up and work together for the good of the country instead of their own personal agendas?! I understand there have been mistakes but let's get our leaders to work together instead of trying to convict one another! I, for one am tired of a bunch of snot nosed brats "leading" our country! It's time for them to grow up and work together for the common good, as it is supposed to be!

GOD knows the Democrats are not perfect either, but people are tired of watching our tax dollars being misspent by the large corporations in a feeding frenzy helped by the dishonest promotion of their Republican partners! Head's should roll.

Maybe it's a good thing that Democrats have a little power so they stop sabotaging everything that this country has been trying to accomplish for the last 6 years...nah, I think not.

Business as usual. Instead of taking care of business for the American people they are going after big business and other deep pockets. After the lawyers empty business bank accounts they will come after us. All this will happen as more illegals invade our country and are welcomed with open arms from the amnesty crowd. My children are going to be screwed.

My God, the inmates have taken over the asylum!!

I am sure that Bush, Cheney and Rove are busy right now shredding documents and will probably be classifying as much as possible before Jabuary

YEH, YEH, YEH

Can anyone say Hastings & intelligence in a sentence without laughing ( or crying)?

get ready for bigger taxes. we'll be paying more for those who refuse to work.

Looking forward to the next 2 years of the democrat’s culture of corruption. With the pictured above gas bags they will stall the next 2 years of any action or issues effecting America today.

Well, well, well...it appears that some important issues needing serious investigation have been piling up. I might have to quit my job in 2007 and become a fulltime C-Span viewer. I am especially excited for John Conyers, a true patriot, who has sent dozens of letters to the President that remain unanswered.

Who's going to investigate falling gas prices? If Bush and the energy companies were responsible for high gas prices, then I assume consumers are to blame for falling gas prices. I demand an investigation into which consumers are responsible for stripping the energy industry of its profits!

More Liberal waste of our time and money. And down the slope we go....

To the victor goes the spoils... Republican voters dropped the ball. There is no way the country changed that much in the last two years- Nancy and all her leftist liberal Californian friends are already showing their true colors and its not even January.

Nice story. The Democrats haven't even had control 24 hours and the big news story by ABC is "Payback". These folks work for US: The American People. Why are they wasting our time and money pouring salt into the wound of the Repulican defeat. Get to work on the issues and stop all this attacking the other party stuff.

Let's pray it does indeed become a "brave new world", because right now it's a scary world with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and John Conyers set to weild their newfound powers in the most agressively selective and vindictive manner ever seen!

Fantastic, can't wait for the Democrats to get to work and investigate all those terrible decisions by Bush. While that is going on I'm sure the terrorists will sit back and just wait and laugh at the commission studies, etc. Me, I think I'll start looking for that small little place in the mountains AWAY from major cities. Watch out America, you are about to Change Direction??

Let All those Liberal Democrats show who and what they realy are ! Since so many NEW Democrats claim to be CONSERVATIVE, the Democrats are going to be a SPLIT Party. The Lady Speaker will be busy twisting arms with her own Tom DeLay. This may be the "blessing" to finish off the Liberal Democrats in the next election just LIKE the Moderate republicans finally have seen their last days.

Whether the Liberals like or not the country is asking for CONSERVATIVE Values and American pride. If this is NOT the case, then ALL of those SO CALLED CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS lied just to get ELECTED !

The Piper will be Paid !

Make no mistake, Democrats weren't voted for, Republicans were voted against. And don't believe the bi-partisan pep talk coming from Nancy Pelosi. As far as Democrats are concerned, the next two years are all about payback. Keep all this in mind while your taxes are going up, and you're watching news of terror attacks on our country.

What is the Democrats plan for dealing with the war in Iraq? All I've heard is it's not the way Bush is dealing with it now. What is the way they will deal with it? Not the way they'll deal with scandals, not how they plan to oppose George Bush, what is the plan? Give us a plan.

I think that the Dems due not care about stem cell reseach but do think more people will be holding to them by pushing for government sponsered program and they will vote Dem to get their pay.Also I think it is about time to unionize the Military and treat them like the Romans did to the Spartens. If you want me to put my life on the line you have to pay just as the police and fire fighter are.

With all these topics for investigations, the Republican hemorrhage will likely continue for 2 more years....

Things such as Iraq hanging around the president's neck and bleeding the administration slowly unless he is willing to look at other scenarios....the K street lobbying environment....Halliburton, et all. God, no wonder the Democrats are salivating....

The more the public finds out, will they be so thoroughly disgusted with the Republican Party that 2006 happens again in 2008?

What do you think? :)

Pelosi said last night we were going to have partnership, not bipartisanship? Or are the dem's saving that for after the impeachment of Bush & Cheney? The Democratic Underground wants to impeach both so Pelosi can be the first woman President.

I assume that the Brian Ross investigative team will help Nancy Pelosi on corruption, now that the election is over, and remove William Jefferson from congress.He was found to have marked bills in his freezer.

The Dems better just start pulling troops out of Iraq. Bush failed in his vision to bring democracy to the Mid East, its time for our boys and girls to stop paying for his mistake with their blood & lives.

Bush and the idiot repubs in congress. This is what they get for believing thier own hype.

I only hope Bush shows some spine and vetoes the socialist nonsense that is sure to come down the pike now .

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. THE SKY IS BLUE Again. HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.

Brian, This article that the Democrats are already looking for payback is very concerning. They have an opportunity to do something positive and they are already haeding down the negative road when they should be reaching out to facilitate moderate change. That is what everyone voted for yesterday, not another do nothing, argumentative agenda!

YES! The House and SENATE are restored to the party of science and rational thinking! I can't believe I'm saying this, but, in the end, I am very grateful for the incompetence of George Bush's neo-theo-conservative administration! I almost can't wait to hear which Republican talking points the pathetic sycophants on the Fox News/Talk Radio circuit are spewing to explain away the nationwide rejection of their minority party!

Oh Boy.......the dilly, dally, democrats get to strut thier stuff now. Whole new set of scandals will erupt. Just remember....we threw the Dems out 12 years ago because of scandals. Nothing will get done. Maybe raise taxes and dump the money down the sewer. Dilly, dally Democrats...give a dollar to everyone.

And none of them will dare touch the real reason for out of control health care costs, the tort industry. They are all phoney's until they address this issue.

Did you notice the one group not on that list to target by the Democrats: Terrorists?

How scary is our future?

Time to move forward and address the burning issues: get a real plan in place to solve the mideast dilemma, more troops or negotiate a resolution; get real ethics reform in place by outlawing lobbyists, make politicians responsible to the people that elected them, not the corporations that fund them and throw the bums out that are robbing the American people; fix medicare, social security, address and fix the immigration issues.

ALL these guys are idiots!

I hope that William Jefferson is on their short list of people to investigate. Obviously the Republicans could not get that investigation underway... maybe the "we can do it better" Democrats can get it done. These little investigations will finally shed some light into the true corruption that sits on both sides of teh aisle.

I think this is the happiest day I've had politically since the 2000 election debacle. Finally we'll get to shed a little light on some of the myraid transgressions committed by the Bush administration and their legislative enablers. The American people have been lied to, terrorized, and plundered by this cabal of right-wing radicals, and it's high time for a reckoning. Bring on the subpoenas and let's get on with the business or repairing our nation's credibility by laying seige to the Fascist movement.

The democrats will continue the well established republican policies of big government spending, national financial suicide, and continuing curtailement of our constitutional rights and freedoms. They will just select different "contractors" to do the job. It's all the same mafia running the show. Nothing will change.

This is the Democrats agenda? Should've known...

While I'm elated we won, if we spend the next two years doing politically motivated investigations, we'll get demolished in 2 years. Investigation into corruption is one thing, but if we go the Impeachment route, we will look like idiots, and be thrown out in '08. America is tired of this crap.

Congrats! You did it! An historic victory for main stream media. Impeach Impeach. Impeach. Let's do it. Get it on.

What! No investigation of William Jefferson who was found to have a cool million in bribery cash in his freezer? That seems to have been white washed by the DEMOGOGUES.

While I'm all for "across the aisle" cooperation in most matters, the simple fact is that the Bush Imperium has ignored the aisle for six years, and I'm sick of it. Dems, I cast my hallowed Libertarian vote for you so that you could call the Imperium to account -- don't lose your spine, now! Habeas Corpus, Torture, Gitmo, Haliburton, etc. etc. -- if you don't go after them with pitchforks and torches, I'll be very disappointed. The Presidential election is only 2 years away . . .

Stop all the investigations and blame games and get back to running the country.

So, that's the NEW agenda - investigation? ...and payback? At least it's nothing new to which we'll have to adjust - elitist politicians fighting amongst themselves, with constituents as mere spectators.

I hope Dingell looks into the Energy Policy real soon also. New forms of energy are essential. However, at the same time why are we shipping billions of $ overseas when we have so much untapped energy here.

were screwed !not only did this country just become weaker! americans get ready to open up your wallets and bank accounts !this is a very sad day in american history!
i just dont understand why american are so dumb! and so out of touch with whats going on in the world today!

Thank God. It's been a long time, but now we get to see how the other half has been working.

I am a long-time Republican, but feel little disappointment at the results of this election. The Republican Party and president Bush and his administration deserved it.

Unfortunately, some pretty good representative and senators also went by the wayside in the process. Nevertheless, the huge loss hopefully will cause the Republican Party to clean house and allow some new blood into the inner circle of party leadership.

Moreover, my hope is that the new Democrat majority will address some of the issues which the Republicans miserably failed to take on during their tenure. Bush has proven to be recalcitrant, obsitnate, and sadly out of touch with his base and the rest of America.

While I don't disagree with everythig he has done, I do vigorously disagree with his management of the war in Iraq, his failure to address border control, his approach to illegal immigration, and his too-cozy relationship with the big pharmacutical companies and other large corporations, among other failings.

The Republican Party organization and elected Republican office holdersstood by and allowed Bush and friends to loose this election for them, so I guess they and we deserved it. Hopefully Democrats will do a better job.

The Democrats do not want to be seen as mere obstructionists, so the issues must be chosen carefully. That said, almost all these look viable.

Mike Hayden at NSÅ would like this list. We'll see if he skates.

if democrats waste the next two years on petty revenge, in two years they will get voted out. stop with the petty power games and do what is best for our kids, and our country. grow up

The Democrats don't know thw difference from a donkey' rear end and I hole in the ground. The one thing they all know for sure is raise taxes, spend too much and molly coddle ever jerk water fanatic bunch in the world as if being dimplomatic will change a terriost into a saint!

God help us with a bunch of liberal democrats, who are out for revenge, running the house and senate. Of course the Republicans had their chance and blew it. The only silver lining in this is that unless they have some real plans, enact some useful meaningful legislation, not based on left wing leanings, it will make it easy for any conservative to win in 2008. The ball is in their court.

The Democrats are going to have to make a choice, do they want their next few years to be about payback or pushing through legislation that the people want?

Let's go after Bush while our soldiers are in the line of fire or do they push for a win which furthers our contry's and also their long term future?

Pass minimum wage laws that have proven time and time again to not only increase unemployment but cause wage inflation that we all pay for anyway?

Regulate drug prices or stop allowing the NIH to subsidize drug companies' R&D?

Fight our enemies or afford them legal rights?

Accountability's time has come for the "Conservative Movement", and it will not be pretty.

IMO, the more Republicans spending quality time in our nation's prison system, the better off America is.

Pathetic.
But certainly what I expect out of a corrupt democratic party.
The corrupted will now investigate.
Priceless....

Oh good, more investigations! Wonder how many millions of taxpayer's dollars they'll spend on that?

I'm sick and tired of all those elected officials parking their behinds in chairs and blaming and blabbing and blaming and blabbing.

One word; Veto.

America has asked for it and now their going to get it. Hide your money under the mattress.

I'm neither Dem or Rep but an ole Air Force Vet. I saw a lot of spending over in the Middle East. It sounds like someone in gov is going to start asking some questions about spending. I just hope they follow thru on their promises, or did they promise? I hope we get some honest anwers from the committees.

This figures, the Dems get control and first up is destroying and investigating this country and nowhere is it mentioned that we should try to win the war on terror. Nothing positive, nothing to help; just destroy, divide, and sensationalize.