Allen concedes. Dems win both houses of Congress.

“The Bible teaches us there is a time and place for everything, and today I called and congratulated Jim Webb…” [Link]

But the Bible also says this about immigrants:

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself… [Leviticus 19:34]

Both instruments of Bush’s victories, Katherine Harris (Florida ‘00) and Ken Blackwell (Ohio ‘04), go down.

Conrad Burns the Arab-hater. Santorum the gay-baiter. The replacement for DeLay the enforcer. All went down.

Complete Republican shutout. AFAIK, no Republican knocked out a Democratic incumbent, though several Republican incumbents hung on.

First female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. First Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison. Second black governor, Deval Patrick.

Second desi Congressman, Bobby Jindal, re-elected.

First state with two desi state reps: Maryland, with Kumar Barve and Saqib Ali.

A symbolic impeachment:

San Francisco and Berkeley voters favored two measures that ask for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to be impeached. [Link]

I’ve been waiting for this moment since I graduated from college:

Among the GOP losers, Hostettler, Santorum and DeWine all won their seats in the Republican landslide of 1994 - the year the GOP grabbed control of the House and Senate from the Democrats and launched a Republican revolution. [Link]

It’s the inevitable smashup of the hollow men who prioritized politics over policy:

They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… [F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby]

I want my democracy back.

It’s morning in America!