Democrats win the House!
CNN just predicted that the Democrats will pick up the seats they need to take over the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994. Nancy Pelosi will become the new Speaker of the House, the first woman to hold that post. Congressman John Murtha of Johnstown, Pa., will at least be in the running for Majority Leader, which will be great for pork. Maybe the state can finally get some of the transportaton infrastructure it needs to move the rural areas of the state into the 21st century.
My old Hope College classmate Pete Hoekstra won re-election as the Republican congressman from Holland, Michigan, but will lose his chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.
The current House Speaker, Dennis Hastert, has just conceded that the Democrats will take over the House. Hastert would have likely lost his job in any case, having been mortally wounded in the Mark Foley scandal.