After twelve years of deficit spending, morality abusing, war losing, scandal and lies, lies, lies, we’re back.

That’s right – it has been 12 years since the Contract with America and Newt Gingrich took power to reinvigorate the Republican Party.

Now it’s our turn.

Out with the old and in with the new.

Some would go far enough to consider this a mandate – here’s your chance Democrats, let’s see what you can do.

Most of the Democrats I talk to are in disbelief; this has to be one of the largest backings of the Democratic Party in recent memory.

The people of America finally decided they were tired of a failed Iraq policy, a failed response with Hurricane Katrina, having to hide the fact they are American across the world and generally just being lied to on such a large scale.

The only problem is the Democrats are going to have to spend the next two years cleaning up the mess the Republicans left us with after 12 years of failing to hold accountable any one of their party buddies or corporate donors.

Democratic representatives have been keeping dossiers on everything they have wanted to correct since the Republicans took power.

John Conyers of Michigan may become one of the most important members of the House of Representatives as he attempts to get to the bottom of the misleading of the American people on Iraq and the loss of our privacy. Nancy Pelosi of California will take the position of Speaker of the House and be the first woman to hold such a prestigious job.

This is a time when the Democrats must make sure they hold members of their own party accountable for wrongdoing and clean up their own image.

Another announcement that came was the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.

We may now have an Iraq policy that will help lead Iraq into a developed democratic state and produce a policy on fighting terror that will lower the threat, instead of heighten it like the Bush administration and the Republican Party have done.

This illegal, unjust war must come to an end, but we must also take care not to abandon the people of Iraq whom we have given this mess to.

We must get the respect of the world back; we will not survive if we continue to isolate ourselves, shutting out even our closest allies.

This is our chance, this opportunity for change.