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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Rep. Bachmann (R) leading the charge against the (made up) cost of Obama’s trip to India.

All 95 of the Democratic candidates who pledged to support net neutrality lost on Tuesday. To be clear, they were almost all challengers, and virtually no Democratic challengers won.