Weeks before the Congressional midterm elections, was much has been said and written about the possibilities and consequences of the outcome of the election, 2006. There was great indignation in the u.s. among both Democrats and Republicans; campaign tracts, meetings, and TV shows got everyone in the us leaving about what's going to happen on 7 November. However, compared with previous elections was not a new thing of the USA. The polity went that its usual way, the only difference with the last Congress elections after the cold war, was the rise of foreign policy as the main concern in the u.s. elections. The issue of foreign policy, although worthy in terms of acting as a turning point for Congress trend, is not the concern of this article. Instead, the global responses to the elections and in particular the role of the Congress in global affairs.
Between branches who are active in the Government of the United States, namely the legislative, Executive and judiciary, the Executive Branch and the President responsible for Foreign Affairs. The Constitution also gives power to the Congress and the judiciary to curb the Executive adventurous decisions by means of legislation and the budget. A very important matter which Congress against the President was the war Power Act (1973), after the fiasco of Viet Nam, which limited the ability of Presidents to enter into a war without congressional approval.
9/11 and the emergency status in the u.s. allowed Bush to get the go-ahead from the Congress to the war against terrorism (specifically at that time about Afghanistan).
The next war, as was clear then, had it not been for the defence of the security of the United States and dealing with the Iraqi threat. War from a global Emperor attracted so much criticism both within and outside the United States. This led many countries feel threatened by the hegemonic power in both hard and soft power sort of deal with the so-called global insurgents "axis of evil". The elections of 2006 was an end to the support of the population of the "war" and many people outside the US was glad to see Republicans los.
Now among the many consequences of this difficult "no" to Republican aggression, one can watch the election and the global responses from a different point of view that globalisation. Opponents of neoliberal globalization attack the way that globalization is more benefits to hegemonic powers (particularly the US) and call for the restructuring of the domains or abolition of international organizations in the name of a more worldwide single Parliament and organization. Regardless of their criticisms on the way to today's organizations, the solutions proposed are far from being real and there is no road map proposed by the anti-globalisation movement. Of course, some scholars such as Walden Bello proposed "deglobalization", which again is far from what would be the actual process.
In reality, the writer believes that the u.s. Congress international organisations such as the United Nations has replaced. For example, compare the war against Iraq, if Congress would not allow the President to conduct of the war, Bush would be in real trouble, but UN censure not so many problems.
The result of this replacement showed himself in two areas regarding congressional elections, the global attention for the 2006 elections and the lobbying effort to each point available in the election.
If we look at the fear existing in the pre-election period and the response to the results, there is certainly a high amount of global concern. Some places like the Middle East and Latin America responded as if the election was theirs. Watch it was another way, there is so much talk about biracials and so-called non-Americans entering into Congress. One might refer to Hispanic-Americans, Afro-Americans or even Muslim-American to specify how you globalised (or some would say multicultural) VS Congress tends to be.
There are some uncertainties in terms of this global Congress if the amount of the global justice present in, or the question of how Congress would react to his past that always left Congress on internal rather than external problems of the United States? And many other questions that would even deny such a universality. But what is obvious is the worldwide status and that Congress has probably the 2008 presidency would get.
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