A GOOD SUMMATION – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 11:45 A.M. ET:  Ed Rogers gives the perfect summation of what happened on Tuesday.  Will the Democrats understand?  From the Washington Post: 

While Tuesday night was not a complete win for Republicans, there was no blue wave, either. By most measures, Republicans beat the odds of history and nearly everyone’s expectations, while Democrats were left disappointed as the fantasy of Beto O’Rourke, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams and others winning fizzled. Not one new progressive Democrat was successful bursting onto the scene. It will take a few days to process the meaning of this year’s election returns, but the instant analysis is clear: Democrats may have won the House, but Trump won the election.

As I always say, in politics, what is supposed to happen tends to happen. I predicted in August that the Democrats would take the House but that alone was not enough for most Democrats. As much as this year’s midterms offered an obvious opportunity to rebuke President Trump, little of what the arrogant Democrats and members of the mainstream media expected would happen actually did. So much of what they said turned out to be wrong that it will take a while before the significance becomes clear. And if the 2018 midterms prove anything, it is that Trump is standing strong while Democrats and their allies who thought Trump would have been affirmatively rejected are in fact the ones who have themselves been denied.

Democrats have underperformed in comparison with the historical markers and general expectations of a midterm cycle. The president’s party loses 37 seats in the House on average in midterm elections when his approval is below 50 percent — but Democrats aren’t projected to pick up nearly that many seats. No liberal will want to admit it, but Trump is an asset to the Republican Party, while President Barack Obama was a disaster for the Democratic Party.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  The Democrats must now produce something in the House that the American people want.  However, what they apparently intend to produce are investigations, including, incredibly, an attempt to impeach Justice Kavanaugh.  They haven't yet figured out that it was their very treatment of Kavanaugh that energized Republicans and led to most Democratic senators in battleground states who voted against the judge to go down to defeat.

Democrats have a choice.  They can try to govern the House in the interest of the nation, or they can play only to their base, which includes liberal billionaires.  I'm afraid the base will win, and the country will lose.

November 8,  2018