Wait, what?

Allowing me a moment to get political here, all I've heard about in my reading and watching of the TV in the run up to yesterdays elections and such was that NY-23 was the race to watch and that it was gonna be a big deal that a Republican was going to win a seat in a district that hasn't voted for a Democrat since the mid 1800s.

I didn't hear much about the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia or the referendum on gay rights in Maine.

So, a Dem wins a seat in a district that hasn't sat a Dem since the Civil War, Garamendi pulls a contested seat in California and the Repubs win admittedly liberal NJ, middle of the road Virginia, and probably scare-mongered a close vote on gay rights in Maine and this is a "transcendent" GOP on the rise?

Watch the news today about how Obama ought to be watching his ass now and talk of the midterms. I'll tell you why Obama should be watching his ass. It's because he's having difficulty following through on some of those campaign promises and hasn't quite been the voice for change that everyone was hoping he'd be. It's certainly not the divided Republican party that is doing anything. They wouldn't have a voice at the table were it not for Obama pandering to the bipartisanship that the Republicans use to gut everything they can get their hands on and then say they won't vote for it. If you train your baby to understand that throwing a fit gets them attention, they'll throw fits.