Tea Partiers have very little to party about....as for Rand Paul's win in KY, it's best described by Mark Twain: “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because it’s always twenty years behind the times”.

"Ballot Box Blues or the most dispiriting election in many voters' lifetimes."

Election about jobs not a GOP mandate; it was the economy and jobs and "neither Obama’s rhetoric nor his long list of big-ticket initiatives match up" with that... It was about jobs, jobs, jobs.....now the GOP in the House must deliver on jobs but Boehner says first order of business is to repeal health care bill.

Note to the media: Democrats still control one chamber of Congress and the presidency...."Only 47% of the members of the Democratic “Blue Dog Coalition” won re-election. 95% of the members of the “Progressive Caucus” won re-election."

"....culture of negligence and deceit inside the C.I.A.counternarcotics program in Peru, including misleading Congress."

"Two federal courts ruled that the Obama administration is using overly strict standards to determine whether older Americans are entitled to Medicare coverage of skilled nursing home care and home health care."