I was hoping that Republicans would hold on to Congress for another term, not because I am a partisan, but because the Democrats have so disgusted me with their Neville Chamberlain-like placating of our Islamist enemies, and some Democrats’ decent into virulent anti-Semitism. But I have seen the Republicans get too comfortable with power, become involved in numerous scandals, and heard too much of their anti-gay and contradictory bigotry.

I was hoping that another loss for Democrats would cause their party to implode and reconstruct itself into the American mainstream. Perhaps Republicans need to do likewise — which was the message in yesterday’s elections. The big question now is: Will the Democrats’ new-found power cause them to sink back into their rut, or reform?

It is like the stock market: hard to call a top or bottom. Let us hope both parties move to the middle — evolve. John McCain summed it up best:

“We came to Washington to change government and government changed us,” lamented Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. … “We departed rather tragically from our conservative principles.”