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I was about to post something meditative, thoughtful and relatively uplifting. I was hunting through the works of William Blake, Denise Levertov and Eavan Boland looking for a poem that could give us all a moment of peace.

Then I refreshed Google News.

From Reuters:

Republican Congress Set to Push Bush Agenda

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans, having expanded their control of Congress, were positioned on Wednesday to provide greater help to President Bush to push a stepped-up conservative agenda in his second term.

The Republican president has sought to extend tax cuts, promote pro-business policies and appoint anti-abortion judges and he may make another attempt to secure a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages.

"With a bigger majority, we can do even more exciting things," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, told a local television station in his state...

I wasn't actually crying until just now.

Does anyone have a poem to share with us all?

ETA: katallison found the right poem, or one of them.