Really sad to see Feingold go. He was the only voice in the Senate that I could listen to without cringing. To my knowledge, he received no substantial support from the National Democratic party.
He deserved to win. The Democrats deserve to lose. What a mess.

As for Pelosi and Reid - I have no use for either of them and will miss neither of them. From my perspective, they both attained leadership positions due to the Democratic sweep in 2006. There was a mandate to end the war in Iraq. Instead, they both went dutifully, cheerfully, along with Bush and sent in even more troops. Pelosi stated at one time that she would never again vote to fund the war. That didn't exactly pan out.

Neither of them were leaders in any sense that has meaning for me.

And that goes for the democratic party as a whole.

If this republican sweep happens as predicted, I see it as a result of the complete abdication of the democrats. They have stood for absolutely nothing imo. More often than not, I have been disgusted by the utterances of the democrats in congress - as well as the one in the White House.

I wanted us out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I wanted an end to rendition.
I wanted Gitmo to be closed.
I wanted single-payer healthcare - or public option at the least.
I wanted an end to the patriot act.
I wanted an end to the practice of indefinite detention without charge or trial.

In short, I wanted progressive leadership. I wanted something from the democrats that I used to identify with democrats.
Instead, I got something that I associate with republicans. From the top on down.

I only hope that the republicans will end the wars.

The wars are a non-issue, apparently.

For me, they are THE issue.
What makes us Americans.
What drives our economy.

Maybe the republicans will end them because they are not afraid of the republicans.

Martin O'Malley wins a second term in the MD statehouse by a bigger margin than he did last time, against the same opponent (former governor Bob Ehrlich - with emphasis on the "ich").

The bigger the Democratic losses, the louder the claim will be that it's all the fault of the liberal left, who just were not content to sit down and shut up; I don't expect much blame to fall to Obama - I mean, haven't we seen how hard he's been campaigning, for heaven's sake? - so that leaves the liberals as the most likely punching bag.  We will be threatened in another year with, "don't you remember what happened last time you all whined about things?"

Even if the challenge never materializes, I think there will be some energy and time spent discussing the possibility that Obama could face a primary challenge should he decide to run again; it won't be from Hillary.  

Effort will also be applied to the creation of a new party: paging Russ Feingold, perhaps?

Booman has to take a leave of absence to recover from the mid-terms; the level of analysis and discourse on some other prominent blogs will be even worse than it has been to this point.

There is a suggestion that the members of the CatFood Commission try living for a year on whatever reduced benefits they suggest for the rest of Americans who rely on the programs to keep them out of the homeless shelter.

Alan Simpson will author a cookbook: 101 Ways to Stretch Your Food Dollar with CatFood.

Elizabeth Warren?  Who's that?

Banks, loan servicers and securitizers of debt will get away with it.  Again.

I will lose half of my chip stack online tonight playing because I don't want to watch the election results.

Ugh. Maybe tonight's the night to watch Alice in wonderland. I'm hoping for a Sparks victory in Alabama, but I think I'm whistling past the graveyard.

In this neck of the woods, people turned so far to the right it's been like watching NASCAR in the mirror.

the one interesting race is a wet/dry vote in one of the local cities. Polls were jammed at 7 am with church buses to vote no. I expect the bootlegger buses to pull in with people to vote no this afternoon.

Let the GOP pass bills, the worst of which will be vetoed.  Let the voters see GOP priorities (once again) being pursued before 2012.  Let the GOP ineptly respond to the economic mess as a real player with Congressional control.  

(CNN) - North Carolina Republican congressional candidate B.J. Lawson's campaign said it was "tricked" by a production company after it was revealed that actor Morgan Freeman was not the narrator in Lawson's latest ad, as the campaign had previously claimed.

"We're apologizing to Congressman Price, to the voters, and most of all to Morgan Freeman because this is not the campaign we wanted to run, and not the campaign we have run," Lawson campaign spokesman Martin Avila told CNN.

The narrator's familiar voice immediately raised eyebrows when the ad launched on Friday. Lawson's campaign initially confirmed that the voice was Freeman's on Facebook and on its website on Monday.

But the Oscar-winning actor issued a statement soon after denying any involvement with the campaign.

"These people are lying. I have never recorded any campaign ads for B.J. Lawson and I do not support his candidacy. And, no one who represents me ever has ever authorized the use of my name, voice or any other likeness in support of Mr. Lawson or his candidacy," Freeman said in the statement.

In a noon email alert to supporters, Coons campaign manager Christy Gleason said close monitoring of voter turnout in the state's 41 representative districts showed "lower turnout in New Castle and Kent counties than we're comfortable with."

"I think he was a little envious that I am here," Clinton told a town hall audience in Kuala Lumpur today, a nod to the Democrats' expected drubbing today.

I don't know whether it's naivete or delusion on their part.