Ironically, Allen should be able to translate this story for us

"Here rest about fifty dead French unknown
soldiers who died at Yorktown for America independence 1781"

We can't ever fully repay the debt we own the French.

For the first time since 1994, the democrats took the control of the two Rooms of the Congress. The democrats become majority with the Room of the representatives have perfect their triumph, Wednesday November 8, as a conqueror the Senate. According to the chains of NBC television and CBS, the democrat Jim Webb gained the very disputed seat of senator held by the republican George Allen in Virginia. The democrats have 51 seats thus out of 100 with the Senate.

The republicans, who control the White House since 2001, had had the majority with the Room of the representatives since 1994 and also controlled the Senate for twelve years, except for a short period between 2001 and 2003. The democrats should count at least 229 representatives with the Room of the representatives, 51 senators and 28 governors out of 50.

To obtain the majority with the Senate, the democrats needed to remove at least six seats with the republicans without losing only one of them. Few analysts considered this performance possible with the day before of the elections. In addition to Virginia, they removed with the republicans a seat of senator in Montana, Missouri, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania and in Rhode Island.

TO LEAD THE COUNTRY "TOWARDS A NEW DIRECTION"

In Montana and in Virginia, the victory was obtained with the snatch with a margin of a few thousands of voice. In these two States, the republican outgoing senators always refuse to recognize their defeat even if the experts estimate that the democratic victory, even thin, is without call.

"the Americans indicated clearly and without hesitation that the democrats were to lead this country towards a new direction", affirmed Harry Reid, chief of the democrats of the Senate. "That it is in Iraq or in the United States, the Americans are tired failures recorded" since the beginning of the mandate of George W. Bush, it added.

The American president, at the time of a press conference organized at the following day of the elections which condemn it to cohabit with the democratic Party for the two last years of its presidency, as indicated as it assumed a "big part of responsibility" for "scraped" wiped.

The future president of the Room of the representatives, Nancy Pelosi, which must lunch Thursday at the White House, promised to make forthcoming legislature, which will take up duty in January, "the most honest Congress, most ethical and most open of the History".

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Jim Webb carried vis-a-vis with George Allen, in Virginia, according to American media's.

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Victors' unity may not hold for long
David Nason, New York correspondent
November 10, 2006
SENATOR George Allen's defeat in Virginia has given the Democrats full control of Congress for the first time since 1994 and ended the political career of a man once considered a frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

That much is obvious. But Senator Allen's demise has another significant consequence: it releases US marines from the nauseating experience of travelling with Senator Allen to places such as Guantanamo Bay.

At the end the dirtiest and most mean-spirited US election campaign in living memory, the revolting story of Senator Allen's marine-escorted trip to Gitmo is hard to beat.

Senator Allen chews tobacco, a disgusting habit he took up in his early teens. It involves gnawing and sucking on a wad of "chaw" until the build-up of saliva requires the brown juices to be spat out. Hence the term "spit tobacco".

As Illinois senator Dick Durbin told it in the Chicago Sun-Times, Senator Allen is so addicted he spent an entire trip to Gitmo on a military aircraft dribbling brown saliva into a plastic cup as clean-cut, ramrod-straight marines sitting opposite tried not to gag. ***