Of course, this will be blamed on the Republicans.  But let’s review the numbers. Dems in Senate:  57 Indies with dems: 2 Pubs in Senate: 41 Final vote:  45-53 In order to get to 45 voting for it, the dems have to lose a dozen of their kin.  Tain’t no way this is a pub thing.  The dems lost it all by their lonesome.

According to Steven F. Hayward, author of the book The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989, here's why Ronald Reagan would likely have voted for Sarah Palin:

Be forewarned: this pack of lies from President Obama and his White House Perpetual Campaign Ministry might actually make blood spurt out of your eyes.

So, mindless Obot volunteers of have pledged over 9 million hours to Dear Leader in order to help elect him and to try and help ram his socialist, anti-American agenda sown our throats. Thank goodness that a the latter has been somewhat foiled for now -- all because of men and women like you, gentle reader.

There are a lot of annoying people on the planet. Almost everyone is annoying to some degree, and at some time or another. But there are some people who go well over the boundaries of acceptable annoyance, and provoke rebellion. Not to trivialize History, but look at the American Revolution. While events went out of control and led to armed insurrection, they started - well, for lack of a better word, as annoying. Taxes that applied only to the colonies. Rules from London that Parliament and the Crown never planned to discuss, let alone apply to themselves.

Remember, the House GOP’s getting crushed in fundraising and their retirements next year actually exceed the Democrats’. [...] Read the rest »

The news for Republicans and conservatives was pretty good with most of the elections yesterday with a landslide for the Virginia GOP and a great win in New Jersey. Conservatives and Republicans did well in other parts of the country, too. One of those other areas was in Maine where the voters rejected a gay [...]

There is lots of good analysis to be found around the blogosphere. Here is a sampling:

Michael Barone -- as always, Barone has great statistics and looks at interesting trends

Fred Barnes -- looks at similarities to 1993

For all the hubbub over a rebirth of conservatism in NY-23, you can make the case that the two biggest beneficiaries of a GOP sweep tonight will be moderate Republicans and centrist Democrats. [...] Read the rest »

It's no use wishing Ronaldus Maximus were around today, because if he were, the Republican Party would have no use for him — because he's too liberal. At least, that's the analysis moonbat drones are being fed by MSNBC. Take it away, Lawrence O'Donnell:

Those in the media are spinning hard in anticipation of Republican wins in some key races today. Many news reports will try to lead you to believe the outcome at the polls should be ignored and the focus should be on Republican divisiveness or that any Republican wins are outliers, with absolutely no significance or relation to the mood of the country as a whole. Don't believe it.

IT'S A BALMY, beer-drinking evening in the middle of August, and the conservatives trickling in to a meeting of the Robert A. Taft Club can't enjoy it. They're mostly under-30 Washington professionals, and they're fed up with the Republican Party. They think George W. Bush's bumbling and Publication: The American Conservative

The New York Times report that social conservatives are talking of bolting to a third-party candidate, should Rudy Giuliani get the GOP nomination, is another sign of the disintegrating Reagan coalition. In truth, that coalition--the 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Reagan won in 1984--was Publication: The American Conservative