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November has been coming for awhile. Specifically since October 1st of last year.

This electoral massacre was revenge. Revenge for failed promises of a President more concerned with his handicap than being a governing executive. It was revenge for cancelled health plans millions of people were promised they could keep… Period. It was revenge for being told repeatedly how great the economy is and how many jobs are being created, despite the lowest work force in 38 years. 38 years. It was revenge for Lois Lerner. It was revenge for the NSA. It was revenge for our dead veterans at the hands of the VA. It was revenge for not being about to play video games or watch football on a Sunday without a culture of protest screaming in our faces. It was revenge for a world spiraling beyond the control of President Hashtag’s celebrity PSAs. It was revenge for losing Iraq, negotiating with Iran and bringing Ebola to our shores for the first time since it’s discovery.

via Red Wedding: November Has Come. | The Wilderness | Conservative Viral Politics Done Differently.

Stephen Miller  aka @redsteeze, has a nice look at what was behind last night’s wave election.

Suffice to say, the electorate is frustrated by a great disconnect between themselves and the government.

Lot’s of exit polls say the economy was the number one issue. DC tells people the recovery is great, while everyone knows in their bones there simply is no recovery.

Moving forward, the Republican led Congress needs to send a series of popular bills to the desk of Obama, forcing him to either veto popular legislation, or sign them and advance policies that are friendly to the GOP (and, one hopes, good for the nation- though I’ll admit the two aren’t always one and the same).

It will be interesting to see in the next two years what the implications are for national security of a GOP led legislature. While the GOP remains strongly committed to defense, and is seen by the electorate as much stronger on defense, the shutdown and sequester of 2013 showed for the first time that fiscal hawks were willing to hold DoD dollars at risk as leverage to reduce the explosion of spending elsewhere. And while that has real short and long term consequences for DoD, I also think it’s inevitable that we have to do it if only to reign in the budget overall.

Of course, the GOP is often described (by those of us on the right) as the Stupid Party. They’ll get back to angering us very shortly, I’m sure.

But for one day, I’mma bask in victory.