Via SayUncle.  SayUncle's election coverage is worth checking out if you have the time.

As if the news couldn't get any worse, according to Clayton Cramer, SCOTUS justice Stevens is rumored to be considering retirement by the end of this year.  Don't expect the senate democrats to allow any nominee through cloture before the newly elected senators assume office.  Then don't be surprised if they try to impede even true centrist nominees.  Stevens after all is one of the most liberal judges on the court.  I wouldn't be surprised if they try to oppose any nominee hoping and praying for a democratic president in 2008 to nominate another ultra-leftist.

[UPDATE] It also just occurred to me that Bolton may be out of the UN if the dems get their way.  Unless the constitutional option (aka, "nuclear option") is enacted.  Same goes for Stevens.

Given the statements that are being made about what the election means (repudiation of Iraq, proof that American's want gun control/gay marriage/ amnesty for illegals/higher taxes/etc.) it is useful to cast some historical perspective on this midterm election.  From 20ktonnes (quoting Ann Coulter):

In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" -- especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.