Funny, with ALL the time wasted on the "Monster" comment, I didn't see on one news program mention this information.

Great News!

Ahh...The tip of the ice berg!

Tonight I accidentally left the TV on ABC for a minute and heard Dan Harris say, with Pearl Harbor-9/11 gravity, that Hastert's seat "had fallen" to the Democrats. What a dick. That's what I get for turning on ABC in the first place.

Oberweis: "Foster believes Big Government should do everything for you."

Snooooooore.

Eject.

Congrats to America for rejecting the horrendous Republican crap that's sent everything into a tailspin so quickly.

Eixt polls showed that voters wanted a Rep. who wasnt a fucking slob who mumbled all the time.

The result of this congressional race is a harbinger of the success for the Democratic party and the country in November. While Dr. Foster was an excellent candidate, and Oberweis was as drippy as his warm ice cream, the real interesting part of the story is that this congressional district is staunchly Republican. Senator Obama certainly helped in his home state, but much of the win can be attributed to Bush and his thugs. After all, citizens of Kane County have lots of young children and they have no intention of letting them become referees among Kurds, Sunnis and Shias. A real hope must be that the Democratic Party gets its act together soon so as to tackle McCain, who is just Bush to be continued. Otherwise all of those Kane, DuPage and DeKalb County boys and girls will get their chance to be great patriots before the l00-year war is over..

Hastert just couldn't quit page predator Mark Foley. I wonder why?

How sad. Just think how discouraging this must be for fat, corrupt Republicans everywhere.

Hey Progressives, don't get TOO excited by this victory. Oberweis is particularly onerous and disliked in Illinois.

Its taken some time but 'We the People' are finally beginning to re-gain control of our stolen nation!!!

not sure if this got posted:

Foster is, unfortunately, a conservative multi-millionaire who has pledged to join the Blue Dog Caucus. his usefulness to the progressive cause ends right here: at blocking Oberweiss, a racist warmonger.
Foster was the choice of the Dem. establishment, who effectively squelched the campaign of John Laesch, a fiery anti-war veteran who quotes Kucinich and was endorsed by Chomsky. the real story (tragedy? sign of hope?) here is that Laesch only lost the primary to Foster by 350 votes, out of 70-something thousand, and this is in spite of all of Foster's corporate monies.

i also would hesitate to praise Obama for this blessing and prematurely confirm the coattail thesis. the dem. takeover here is attributable to many man factors, obama being only one. it'd be very convenient if we had one person to work all of these miracles, but we can remain hopeful and secularist at the same time, i think.

Congratulations to Mr. Foster. I hope that Mr. Foster's election energizes other reform Democrats to commit to the difficulties and expenses of their district congressional elections. I hope that candidates awaken to the fact that we have an educated electorate that is suffering in many ways from the corruption of government.

While many Democrats like to paint Republicans as evil, in fact many Democrats have long histories of taking funds from lobbyists and pushing legislation that is not beneficial to the individual constituent but to the funding sources whether they be large corporations or special interest groups. I hope Mr. Foster's election will inspire other reformers committed to changing the system and election laws that encourage such behaviour.

We the people have had to endure many years of Republican greed and rule, and unfortunately, we as citizens will have many years of paying for the corrupt practices of the Republican Administration and Congress. The Iraq war alone may bankrupt the United States, and still current lawmakers, the media and Presidential candidates are not speaking about it. Hopefully laws will be passed that begin to pursue the criminalty of these years and punishments for the illegal and criminal actions of those responsible.

I hope congressional Democrats will also see this election of Mr. Foster as a sign from the electorate to begin pushing a needed reform agenda and to stop caving into the obvious graft and special interests of the Bush administration. I am encouraged that finally congressional Democrats are taking off the gloves and calling for investigations and hopefully indictments of the criminals in federal positions that have fed so greedily on the public's trust and funds.

Bravo to Mr. Foster, may many more Mr. Fosters awaken and succeed in their Congressional districts.

Unlike primay elections/caucuses, this election is a snapshot of what's in store for Republicans in the Unlike primary elections/caucuses, this election is a snapshot of what's in store for Republicans in the upcoming "general" election. A traditionally extremely solid Republican district elected a Democrat. To what does the GOP/RNC attribute this highly unexpected loss? Hastert, McCain and Bush all campaigned for and or strongly supported Oberweiss. They threw 1.3 million into Oberweiss's campaign. How effective will Karl Rove's "genius" dirty tricks and outright lies be in this year's "general" elections if they proved unsuccessful in Dennis Hastert's district? If Republicans can't retain the hardcore long-standing Republican district of one of their highest profile leaders, how can they expect to hold on to and or successfully compete in districts that are not hardcore Republican with prominent, lesser known and relatively unknown candidates? The Democrats aren't just going to win the presidency, they are going to increase their majorities to the point that a Democratic controlled White House and Congress will be "filibuster proof". That is the Bush administration's worst nightmare, because it will expose the cover-ups of their immoral, corrupt and criminal actions. It will also expose the actions and inactions of the Republican leadership who enabled and facilitated the immoralities, corruptions and crimes of the Bush administration. The Democrats will hold the White House for at least sixteen years, which will effectively be the end of today's Bush Republican Party. Losing Dennis Hastert's district is clear evidence that the GOP is going down, and that all their past sins are going to comeback and haunt them for years if not decades to come. The pendulum has gone as far right as it's ever going to go, and its swing back toward the middle will be righteously bloody and painful for those who supported and enabled the political, moral, governmental and personal failures of George W. Bush and John Sidney McCain III.

This is a really big deal; Hastert"s seat was a considered safe. The GOP dose not have the money to contest every Congressional seat in Nov. Oberweis is more right leaning than Hastert. My Republican Rep. is leaving Congress after this term, his 4th. In 2004 he injoyed a 17 point spread, in 2006 he faced anti-Bush sediment, which narrowed that lead to 1 point, running against a little known State Rep. whom he started bashing in July, he out spend her 3 to one as well as going very negative. She did not start campaigning until September and didn"t go negative any way. The GOP is fielding a much more liberal Republican and daughter of a former Governor who won 2nd term by a very narrow majority because she did not rain in out high auto insurance rates, a campaign promise she failed to keep in her 1st term and than left to take a cabinet position in the Bush Administration"s EPA, resigning after only 18 months. November should prove interesting in my district.

from 2004 with more to come, this is going to get good!

Perhaps as a result, the Saudi donations to the Clinton library are raising some eyebrows. Mr. Unger said he suspects that the Saudi support may have something to do with a possible presidential bid by Senator Clinton in 2008.

"They want to keep their options open no matter who's in power and whether that's four years from now or whatever," the author said. "Just a few million is nothing to them to keep their options open."