Max Blumenthall has me laughing today.

In the wake of defeat, some of Hoffman's enthusiastic backers attempted to spin his loss as a heroic moral victory. They included Erick Erickson, a popular blogger at the heavily trafficked right-wing blog, RedState.com. "This is a huge win for conservatives," Erickson declared. "...we did exactly what we set out to do - crush the establishment backed GOP candidate."

Besides Erickson, only Democrats seemed to be celebrating the news. "A Democrat close to the administration could only say: 'Holy f---ing sh--!' over and over when I called for comment [about Owens' victory]," reported Elizabeth Benjamin of the New York Daily News.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-04/how-the-rights-point-man-went-down/2/

Yesterday's elections had little to do with me. Two gubernatorial elections in NJ and Virginia; and the repubs just trounced the dems.

But there were two congressional seats that were there for the taking and the Dems won.

I have never seen so many close, close elections go to Dems over a three year period. Ever. I mean it is like they cannot lose.

After the 2006 elections, the most fun I had had in decades of election nites, the dems won some off year elections in the House.

Genghis sees cycles in these elections. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/genghis/2009/11/whats-the-matter-with-new-york.php

Remarkable, really.  We just do not get breaks like this. That seat in NYS has been repub for over a hundred years or something. And only 100,000 showed up to vote. And the lib repub took enough votes to give the victory to the Dems to say nothing of the repub's last minute support for the Dem.

Palin and teabaggers all supported a conservative party candidate. So it is fun to see them lose. And Overreachthis noted the nice fight this morning between O'Donnell and Steele from TPM'S Video site.

Oh, every time there is a good fight on Morning Joe, you can tell the level of frustration by Joe Scarborough by his laugh. The louder the laugh, the more upset the conservative repub actually is.

And we get two more votes for health care and that vote might come by Friday or Saturday in the House.

Jim Webb won the Democratic nomination for the 2006 Virginia Senate race by defeating Harris Miller in the primary, then won the general election by defeating the Republican incumbent George Allen. Webb's thin margin in the general election (less than 0.5%) kept the outcome uncertain for nearly two days after polls closed on November 7, 2006, and provided the final seat that tilted the Senate to Democratic control.

Al Franken beat Coleman (A man I surely despise as I have stated countless times and I love taking the opportunity to state my dislike whenever I can which is why I am wasting your time right now) by 312 votes and eight months of litigation.

On June 6, 2006, Jon Tester won the Democratic primary by a margin of over 25 points, much larger than expected given the previous polling. Burns easily won the Republican primary. On election day, Tester received 198,302 votes versus 195,455 for Burns. Tester was declared the winner on Nov. 8, 2006.[9][10] His victory, along with that of Jim Webb in Virginia, was one of the two closest and last decided Senate races in the 2006 midterms, which saw the Democrats regain control of the Senate.

So go ahead and spin that you goddamn repubs. Hahahaha

Or as Matt Damon put it in Good Will Hunting:

You like apples?

I mean do you like apples?

WELL HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?

I think the dems have accomplished some very important things over the last three years. For one thing, they stopped George W. Bush in his tracks, making the last two years of his administration useless as far as breaks for the rich, that is.

There has been important legislation that has already been signed sealed and delivered to the American people. SCHIPS, stimulus, and other help has been enacted.

Health insurance reform is coming. Hell a vote could be had in the House this week.

Yeah we are stuck in two wars.

Yeah we are stuck in a recession/depression.

But how would things be going if the repubs were in control?

Things could be worse.

Right now I feel like celebrating.

If nothing else, a lot of repubs are hurting, real bad, even if they do not wish to admit it.