Drop ideology and start fixing the problems

Democrats now have opportunity to move beyond partisanship
E.J. DIONNE, Washington Post Writers Group, Charlotte Observer
WASHINGTON - It's over.
American voters, in their wisdom, ended an era on Tuesday. They rejected a poorly conceived war policy in Iraq that has weakened the United States. They rejected a harshly ideological approach to politics that cast opponents as enemies of the country's survival. They rejected a president so determined to win an election that he was willing to slander his opponents by saying: "The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses." The voters decided there was no decency in that....