"So, to sum up the weekend: Republicans won a race that no one saw coming,"

Is this what you meant to say, or am I confused? When a candidate is indicted for $90,000 in illegal cash found in his 'fridge, one could have foreseen a defeat coming.

Cao's victory in - where did you say it was? - marks the end of the Obama Era. Hey, the guy wasn't even a citizen anyway.

The tsunami is about to hit.

Wake me when Palin gets the nomination.

If the Republican's can just find a few dozen more Democrats who are under federal indictment and then make sure that the elections are postponed due to storms so that turn out is low, they might just take back the legislative branch!

Cao is lucky. Really lucky. I hope he makes the best of his chance at office and does an awesome job because it's very unlikely that he'll hold onto his seat in the next election otherwise since he owes it pretty much to a "Perfect Storm" (pun only slightly intended).

Let's see, Ted Stevens, a Republican, lost in Alaska because he stole money. Now, in Louisiana a Democrat loses a seat because he stole money.

Gee. a pattern is emerging. Voters sometimes vote out thieves.

Will somebody fund a think tank for me now?

As a raging Liberal Democrat from New Orleans I can tell you with 100% certainty that the reason Dollar Bill Jefferson was voted out of office in a district that is 2/3 Democratic is the same reason that Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens was removed by the voters: they are both slimeballs and their constituents have had enough.

As for Cao: As long as he tries to do a decent job and stay away from failed Republican gimmicks like professing "family values" and being "strong on defense" he could actually be re- elected. But if he starts grandstanding he is finished.

As for this being some kind of sign from God that the country is turning stupid again 4 weeks after the election, what people of normal intelligence understand is that had this election and the Chambliss run-off in Georgia been on the November 4th these 2 would have been swept up in the Republican loss.

Boehner is like a Monday Night Football play-by-play announcer trying to make a blow-out sound like a close game.

They have the momentum when they're winning; they have the momentum when they're losing. Tax cuts are necessary in a time of surplus; tax cuts are necessary in a time of deficits. The surge is needed to secure Iraq; the surge is needed to hold the gains.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."--Albert Einstein

These dopes are delusional if they think they have the makings of an Obama backlash. It's like getting 1 number in the Pick6 and claiming you WON the lottery.

Purely speculating, is it possible Jefferson won in 2006 because so many of his constituent were displaced and were just getting back or not yet back, and the last thing they were thinking about was their congressman's freezer? I say that because his scandal broke before the 2006 election, and I was more surprised by that result than this year's result. If I'm right, that explains why they turned on him this year. I'd have voted for the Republican too, or anybody but Jefferson.

Of course, that's partly speculative about an area where I don't live and maybe don't know everything that's going on there, a bit like certain War Room bloggers trashing Minnesota's election procedures without knowing much about them. (Yes, I'm referred to a closed thread from Friday)

The GOP has been leading the Dems for a few years in terms of getting Asian American candidates elected. True they're not YOUR Asian Americans but at some point the Liberal-Black Vanguard is going to find itself on the outside looking in.

Please feel free to flame this simple fact.

Up until recently, Cao called himself a Independant, not a Republican. He beat someone who used the National Guard to get stuff out of his house after Katrina and had a freezer full of dirty money. If the Republicans think this is a win or a turning point, then they are really in a lot of trouble.

Cold cash or hot money?