Yahoo! News - Republicans Consolidate Power in Congress

"I think it means that the president has an opportunity here to enact and proceed with the plan (on Iraq) as he has articulated it," Daschle said on NBC. "I think the American people appear now to give him the benefit of the doubt."

Again, to quote Gil Scott-Heron: "Well, all I've got to say is 'Mandate, my ass!'"