Donna Edwards received a standing ovation.

It became the politics of the usual once they got back to Washington.

The voters get it and it's time for members of congress to get it too.

Here's what's going to happen in 2008. Getting out of the war in Iraq is n ot rocket science. You know what it is, it's common sense. It's time for us to start investing in peace and prosperity and stop investing in war. It's time for us to engage with other partners in the world who walked away from us because we were engaged in something that was illfated to begin.

We know that the 100 years guy is out there too, but we're not going to let them have their way. We're going to rear our shoulders back, we're going to get some spine and we're going to team up with the Democrat in the White House and we're going to get out of Iraq.

It's time to put the war back on the front pages of America's newspapers.

reengage in diplomacy, take care of the returning soldiers, invest in international institutions so this never happens again and the US  congress takes back the responsibility for oversight, so they don't make the mistake in the first place.

I want to pat the congress on the back for last week finally standing up to the telecom companies. No to the banks and the credit card companies, no to those companies that are profiting from war instead of peace.

I am counting on you to have my back in the 111th congress.