"YES WE CAN" IN ONE NIGHT HAS BECOME "NO YOU WON'T"

In one night, the balance of power throughout the nation changed hands, as a record number of Americans went out to vote last night. With very few exceptions, the American electorate showed their displeasure with the president and his party’s agenda, and sent members of his party a pink slip. Even the so-called “Blue Dog Democrats,” conservative to moderates within the president’s party were sent packing last night. For the first time in recent memory, there will be fewer than two hundred Democrats in the House of Representatives, and the Democrat majority has now dwindled to two or three seats, depending on a few elections results which are still too close to be called either way, but nevertheless, the Democrats no longer have a sixty vote majority in the Senate because the GOP picked up about eight seats in the US Senate last night.

The Republicans picked up more than sixty seats in the House, a number which trumps their victory over the Democrats in 1994, when the Republicans picked up fifty-four seats. But the additional seats picked up in the House and in the Senate were not the only races where Republicans won decisive victories, they also secured a number of key governorships in what had been traditionally “blue” states. In Ohio the Republican John Kasich defeated the incumbent Democrat for the governor’s seat, and in Pennsylvania the Republican defeated the Democrat for that state’s governor’s seat. The Democrats now only hold seventeen governorships nationwide of all fifty states.

In almost every demographic group the GOP picked up more votes than their Democratic opponents as the American electorate last night switched sides with the president and went for the GOP, in many races, embracing the TEA Party Candidates running against long-time incumbent career politicians of the Democratic Party. Many who had voted in 2008 for the president now cast their votes against his agenda and the way his party conducted business in Washington. CNN and other allies of the White House tried to explain or play down the significance of last night’s vote, as they are expected to do the rest of this week as they “analyze” the returns coming in.

There were a few exceptions to the trend last night. In California former Democrat governor “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown, won over former EBay CEO Meg Whitman, and far-left Barbara Boxer was able to fend off former HP CEO Carle Fiorina for the coveted Senate seat. Nevada saw the Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid hold his Senate seat over TEA Party GOP candidate Sharon Angle. In Delaware TEA Party GOP candidate Christine O’Donnell lost to self-proclaimed “bearded Marxist” Democrat Christopher Coons, who received 56.6 percent of the votes, at 173,900; fifteen points over O’Donnell’s forty percent at 123,025. O’Donnell had an uphill battle against Coons with her own party’s elites working in tandem behind the scenes with the DNC to secure Coons’ victory and her defeat.

And though last night was a repudiation of Obama’s agenda, he nevertheless appeared today before the nation to justify himself and his agenda by claiming that the people had only shown their discontent with the economy, not with his policies. This president is either delusional, or so entrenched in delusions of grandeur about himself that he simply is far out of touch with the political reality that hit his party and by proxy him last night with all of the power of a runaway locomotive. Mr. Obama is completely self-absorbed and detached from the people whom he claims to serve, and is committed to see to it that he complete his agenda long before running for reelection in two years. He is completely delusional.