American Voters Just Say No  By Robert Parry November 8, 2006
By a surprisingly decisive margin, American voters rejected
George W. Bush's designs for transforming the United States into
a one-party government run by an all-powerful executive waging
endless war abroad and throttling constitutional liberties at
home.  In essence, the voters asserted themselves as the final
check and balance in the U.S. political system, giving the
Democrats control of the House of Representatives and putting
them within reach of a Senate majority as well.  The results
were even more devastating for Bush and political adviser Karl
Rove because the President had sought to turn the Democratic
tide by nationalizing the election and taking to the stump with
harsh attacks. Bush equated a Democratic win with a victory for
the "terrorists" and a defeat for America. [See's "Bush Will Say
Anything."]   Initially, that Republican scare strategy,
combined with the news media's obsession over Sen. John Kerry's
botched joke about Iraq, see