So Why Is the Tea Party Celebrating?

I think it is fair to say that the Tea party lost the Senate for the GOP. There is no way that Harry Reid, against a not-outright-batshit-crazy Republican, would have won his re-election campaign. His negative numbers were too high, he should have lost. But the Tea party indeed ran an outright batshit crazy candidate for the GOP primary, won that, and then lost the race to Reid.

Same thing happened in Delaware and, for that matter, in Connecticut. Murkowski's ahead in Alaska.

In California, Jerry Brown is singing "money can't buy you the governorship", since Meg Whitman apparently spent roughly $200 million of her own money and came up nearly a million votes short. The other California "I was a CEO of a technology company and I should be able to do this political thing" candidate, Carly Fiorina, also lost by abut 3/4th of a million.

Those are the bright spots, probably.

Now we shall see if the Republicans can do anything other than obstruct, delay and whine.

I'm betting that they can't or they won't.

We had better hope that there are no serious crises to confront this country for the next two years. For if it takes congressional action to address them, it's not going to happen. If the recession takes a downturn, nothing will be done to help anyone. If you're out of work, the answer from the Federal government will be summed up in one word: Starve.

As for long-term issues such as infrastructure improvements and rebuilding or energy independence or addressing climate change, well, you can forget about those as well.

Don't weep for this country. It is a democracy. Whatever happens now is what the voters chose.