The landslide victory for Democrats in the US Congressional races has exceeded even the most radical expectations. Democrats have a solid majority in the House, and appear likely to take the Senate by a single vote, pending the imminent recount in Virginia. Further, Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the US occupation of Iraq and longest serving Secretary of Defense in US history, resigned this morning. He will be succeeded by former CIA Director Robert Gates.
An uncharacteristically humbled President Bush invitied Democrats to supply an alternative approach to Iraq, indicating that anything is negotiable short of immediate withdrawal.