The New Republic: Eight Days

Future historians will note that it took a grand total of eight days. When the Republicans swept to victory on November 5, they rushed to reassure the nation that, this time, they would not overreach.

Turns out they lied. Eight days into this new era of Republican dominance, George W. Bush's GOP has not merely succumbed to Gingrichism; they've surpassed it. The 1994 revolutionaries, after all, only sacrificed social justice to their K Street cronies. In a time of war, the Bushies have now sacrificed patriotism as well.

On November 13, eight days after the election, the House Republican leadership stuffed seven new provisions into the bill--one of which gutted the restrictions on offshore companies gaining Homeland Security Department contracts--and rammed the new legislation through.

An old one but worth repeating, their is nothing the Republican Party won't do for their huge business friends. Bipartisanship before the elections enabled a new law that businesses that reincorporate outside the United States to avoid paying taxes could not do business with the Homeland Security Department. After the election, that provision is stripped.