Just for a minute. Here at DailyKos, we were not enthusiastic about this election. One need look no further than the Dkos endorsed U.S. Senate candidates... how many were there? Huh? Oh yes. Zero.... wait wait... One! Rick Weiland in SD, and only that one in a sort of hail mary last second shot to try to boost a D in a race we had long assumed was going to the Rs.
No, we here were not excited by the candidates. We were holding our noses. Our $$ and time was guided away from these battlegrounds and towards a bunch of Secretary of State races.
I'm not saying this to critique those endorsements. Just pointing out that we activists were not fully engaged in the fight to keep the Senate. So when we lose control of the Senate, what do you expect?
Anyway, as I said several weeks ago, having a republican controlled Congress may be the best thing possible for President Obama's final two years. Congress certainly wasn't going to pass any legislation when they could blame everything on Harry Reid. Now they can't do that anymore. So let them govern. And maybe they'll actually pass a few bills that Obama can veto.