So, what's it all mean now at the national level?

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First, I appreciate the victories of both (and especially) Gov. (Elect) Bill Christie (R-NJ) and Gov. (Elect) Bob McDonnell (R-VA).

We are met with a White House, once again engaging in self-delusion mode, wherein they try and tell us that "they" didn't have anything to do with those elections since they were "local."

Visions of then White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers standing outside the White House that freezing November morning back in 1994 until at least 4 a.m. local time, giving the following answer to EVERY question asked of her:

"The president does not view the results of this election as a referendum on his leadership."

... dance in my head.

Both New Jersey and Virginia went with the Empty Suit in 2008, New Jersey by 14.7 % and Virginia by 6.3%. Obama invested in both states; heavily in New Jersey; less so in Virginia where Deeds knew that the VA voters were in a mood to reject the messiah's programs.

So, we're confronted with a White House that is "Bart Simpsoning" this result.

And what would the White House be babbling if the left had ran the table?

The exact opposite.

This represents an almost diametric scenario from that typically reserved for the GOP: I've frequently posited that the GOP knows how to achieve power, but has no real clue as to how to keep it.

A tin-eared White House, seeing the same polls we do, plus their own internals, knows that their policies and vision sucks in the eyes of the American people. They also know that somehow, magically, the empty suit's personal popularity remains above 50%, even though his policies don't.

They made the calculation that we're still not paying close enough attention... that we're still awed by the man of "Hope and Change," but it seems they forgot to ask: "How's that 'Hopey-Changy' thingy working out for you?"

While the president has undeniable, but increasingly smaller personal popularity, that doesn't translate to stiffs like Deeds or crooks like Corzine.

There's been a certain "Nero-esque" quality to the president: More golf in 10 months than Mr. Bush in 3 years; weekly Wednesday parties at the White House that have rung up a bill in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars while homeless people are, literally, just down the street.

The bizarre lies put out there for the President, for example, that "he wouldn't be watching the election results" show an inability to grasp reality and a knee-jerk position that lies are the order of the day no matter how short the term, since we have a limited memory and after all, one lie can be replaced by another as needed. (Doesn't this "saved or created jobs" thing just make you want to blow chunks?)

Yesterday's result represents a message. The bleeding for the democrats is arterial. Do they become responsive and actually begin to listen? Or, as I have repeatedly prophesied, undergo 1994 all over again?

The choice is up to them. And if they make the wrong one, then the choice will be up to us.
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