Now the aftermath...

Nancy Pelosi gets to be speaker of the house. You know what they say, you'd better be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. She's now the second biggest target for every conservative journalist in the country (right after Hillary), and if she slips up even once she's going to get hammered.

"The Has Been" on Slate.com was crowing his joy about the democratic victory, and blamed the republican loss like this:

In fact, the best news of the 2006 elections is the opportunity it gives Democrats to earn the lasting support of the independents and disgruntled Republicans whose votes just dropped in our laps. Tuesday was the death knell for Rovism—the quaint and now fully discredited theory that majorities are built not by expanding support with ideas that work but by mobilizing extreme minorities with ideas that aren't meant to be enacted and wouldn't work if they did.

Amusingly enough, the author seems to have forgotten that this was the main reason the democrats lost so badly in the past. But then again, lessons like this are easily forgotten in the political world.