On McConnell, interesting to observe that the GOP minority leader who wasn’t able to win a majority in his chamber (when it was clearly possible — DE, NV, CO, WA) is the one who’s now most hard charging and aggressive vis a vis Dems and Obama.

Tell from McConnell’s speech: Health Care Reform bill is now the “Health Spending” bill.

I’m terribly surprised that everyone everywhere on the political spectrum (here and there) is using Tuesday’s results as confirmation of the assumptions they’ve held all along.

Yesterday TPM Reader DB wrote in and said: hey, cool slideshow of the new senators. But what about the new governors. So here you go. Here’s our slideshow of the 24 new governors across the country. In many ways, a more interesting group of people than the new senators.

The House Crazy Caucus will be welcoming several new members from the incoming freshman class. Here’s four surefire bets for membership.

Jon Stewart to Fox’s Chris Wallace: Congrats on retaking the House.

George W. Bush: I personally gave the order to waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed in 2003.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will speak at the top of the hour at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Capitol Hill. In a preview of his remarks, McConnell doubles down on the GOP’s number one legislative priority: defeating Obama in 2012. We’ll be there, so stay tuned.

TPM Reader CA with a great catch:

The Denver Post article on Wednesday reported that “Tom Tancredo entered the
room for his concession speech to the strains of ‘La Bamba'” playing.

Now that’s irony!

Mexican-American Ritchie Valens’ given name was Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes.

One of Ben Craw’s patented mashups — all the election night cable coverage in one concentrated 5-minute overdose: Read More