2. I confess I’m a bit surprised at how well the Democrat Party plan of emulating their, um, “successes”, in California on a national scale has worked nationally, election-wise.

3. I mean, there’s no better slam-dunk example of anti-middle-class policies than what the Dems have done to that state. And yet those of us who have fled its rotting corpse seem to have done nothing but turn previously red states blue. Probably CA would have been better than Greece as a warning for where we don’t want to go, but I have no doubt that would have been slammed as racist, so what can you do?

4. Mitt’s surely a great guy, but he was clearly the guy with the wrong resume for the times.

5. Poor Obama sure will be inheriting an awful mess come January, no?

6. Where the GOP goes from here is tough to say. Luckily for me I’m not a member of the GOP, so I can worry about other things. Would someone like Rand Paul really expand the vote any? Doesn’t seem likely. Will folks be any more amenable to the party message given four more years of economic disaster? Seems sadly less than certain.