Good Morning, Mr. President.

Your new reality awaits.

You've lost your mandate. You've lost the U.S. House, and you can't push around the U.S. Senate.

There's CHANGE afoot alright, but not of YOUR sort. Not of the far-left post-January 2008 kind you're used to.

YOU LOST YOUR OWN SENATE SEAT IN ILLINOIS!11!1! that's got to hurt. Not that you were there long enough to keep it warm, but the IRONY, it burns.

Is it 2012 yet ?

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From RCP, the maps.

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From overseas, the unvarnished TRUTH...

US midterm election results herald new political era as Republicans take House

Democrats pummelled at polls but retain Senate as Tea Party notches string of high-profile victories across US

Barack Obama was today facing a harsh new US political reality in the wake of one of the worst Democratic defeats in recent history.


In midterm election races across America, Republicans pummelled their opponents, capturing the House of Representatives and a fistful of Senate seats.


It was a remarkable comeback from two years ago, when many experts expected the party to endure a long time in the political wilderness in the wake of Obama's emphatic 2008 presidential election victory.


Instead, Obama faces a hard political lesson after a hammering that wiped away the last vestiges of the euphoria that swept him to the White House.


The political momentum has swung to the rightwing Tea Party movement, which energised the Republican base and notched up a string of high-profile victories.


The loss of the House is the first major setback Obama has faced in his relatively untroubled political rise from a community worker in Chicago to the presidency, and means that Nancy Pelosi – its first female Speaker – will give way to the Republican John Boehner.


The swap of a liberal San Franciscan woman for a conservative Ohio man is a symbol of the deep shift in US politics heralded by the midterm results

I'll enjoy watching the Democrats try to maneuver in the lame-duck session. Especially fun will be seeing the face of Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker's Gavel is pried from her fingers, and her fleet of jets is parked on the runway.

A good day, my friends. Oh, and for one last time, Alan Grayson, you can kiss my @$$.

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