As much as I'd like to blame everything that happened today on an unfair media, the reality is that we had a majority in congress and a democratic president and managed to accomplish virtually nothing in the last two years. The economy remains in shambles, and our only legislative victories have been largely unpopular ones. Health care reform isn't the bill it could have been or should have been, and even if it was, it not taking effect until 2014 just means nobody will notice how good it is until the republicans retake the presidency in 2016. I'm still confident on an Obama re-election, if only because Romney will never win a republican primary and the most likely primary victory at this point in likely-to-runs is Palin.
I just don't understand why we can't have an efficient operation like the republicans did during the Bush years. Even if we'd lost the same number of seats today, if we'd had a unified party and leaders with the balls to get the party in line, we'd at least have accomplished some legislative victories. Democrats like to pretend that we're different from the republicans in that our party is a 'mix of ideals', but that's bullshit - the republicans have always had far right nutjobs like Coburn and just right of center types like McCain, but when an important bill came up, republican leadership was willing to resort to blackmail just to get everybody to agree on things. If the democratic leadership thinks they're above this, this may explain why we've been the minority party for the majority of the last fifty years.
The next six years are going to be a long, miserable slog. Can't get shit done now? Just imagine how it's going to be now that we only have a slim lead in the senate and a minority in the house. At least we finally got rid of those fucking Blue Dogs.