Pundits and others are scratching their heads: How did Rove's predictions for a GOP hold on Congress fall so far off target?....

Future Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says scrutinizing the executive branch will be a top priority come January....

So the propaganda battles are in full swing, while most Americans gently snooze the day away or, at best, hoist a glass or three in celebration of the Republican defeat.

Propaganda, you say?  About what?

Apparently one of the wounded Rethugs thinks they own a word I actually coined right there at WTW...

Following up on the post r.e. attempts by business groups to weaken regulatory controls on Corporate Kings, here's a hell of a good candidate for Con of the Year:  the corporate types are crying and crying about how hard it is to comply with those silly things like the Sarbanes-Oxley law.

There was clearly a message from the voters that said, "If you're in political office, it ought to be about public service.''

[Ken was silent on why a national political party, one which calls itself the party of values, would need such a message from voters in order to understand the point]

Congratulations to America and the Democrats for the House and likely Senate victories.  There is some reason to hope that this can stop the slide into a 19th century dictatorship.  But I hope that the Democrats understand they've won an opportunity, a battle if you will, not the war.

While the Democrats had a good night, ballot propositions to raise state minimum wages had a better one: 6 for 6 approved by the voters.

Defense officials, on top of them Rumsfeld, failed and so did the American ambassador. Changing Rumsfeld should have happened a year ago because their work in Iraq did not achieve any results.

Or, let's put it another way: What about today's news just fails to add up?........

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