The Republican carnival barkers who gin up “vote fraud” claims went remarkably quiet as soon as the election results were in.

It prompts TPM Reader CH, with tongue firmly in cheek, to hatch her own conspiracy theory: Read More

Nancy Pelosi just announced, via Twitter, that she will run for minority leader.

A dyed-in-the-wool birther has been elected House majority leader in the Missouri General Assembly. This guy is actually a plaintiff in one of Orly Taitz’s birther lawsuits.

We’re finally rid of those pesky Blue Dogs that weighed us down in the majority. Now we can go back to being a smug minority.

Conservative Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) has released a statement saying that he “can’t in good conscience support Nancy Pelosi as Leader” and that it’s time for new, more conservative leadership in the House Democratic Caucus.

The Daily Show sets out to figure out what exactly “it” is that Obama doesn’t get. Watch.

Why did the Pot Legalization proposition go down to defeat in California?

ed.note: A lot of people on both sides of the Prop 19 issue have written in with various points about Prop 19 but usually assuming that I personally supported it. I hadn’t really focused on it much, honestly. But I think I probably would have voted against it. For two reason: First, unless I’m missing something, it amounts to nullification. The federal government seems like the competent authority to regulate this question, even if I think our drug policy is a disaster. Federal laws trump state laws, even when you don’t like them. Read More

Boehner distances himself from McConnell’s confrontational remarks toward Obama.

After seeing his party swept out of the House majority, Rep. Chris Van Hollen will not return as chairman of the DCCC, the committee charged with getting Democrats elected to the House.

Things are getting hot in the counting of ballots in Bridgeport, CT, where the outcome of the Connecticut governor’s race may be decided. One highlight, a bag of as yet undiscovered ballots that turned up Thursday evening. The New Haven Independent is all over the story.